A Book Review of Ground and Limit of Victim as a Part in Action: Research on Victim’s Right of Action in Public Prosecution

Abstract

Under the frame of the principle of state prosecution, the crime is deemed to be a kind of illegal act provided with social harmfulness and so the state is maintained the only victim of crime. The victim’s right of prosecuting autocephaly the crime is deprived in the case of public prosecution, and the state prosecution agency replaces the victim to be the public power of seeking the justice of criminal law. Compare brilliantly with the problem of the accused’s right protection highly praised by the jurists in the past, more and more jurists begin to pay close attention to the victims’ problem of their procedural right. Among the researching of the victim’s problems, the most challenging one is the victim’s status in the criminal proceedings. The book The Ground and Limit of the Victim as a Part in Action: Research on the Victim’s Right of Action in Public Prosecution written by HAN Liu leads the theory of the right of action into the problem of the victim’s status in litigation, demonstrates the independence of the victim’s right of action relative to the right of prosecution. The book discusses the basic principle of the victim’s right of action and the research belongs to typical research of speculative and philosophic theory. Based on normative quotation, clearheaded logic and fluent reasoning, the whole book forms a complete system. And being an outstanding example of discussing justice for victim, the book provides a novel and original theory to explain and solve the problem of the victim’s status of the part in criminal prosecution procedure.