2.4 Role of Crime Victim in Criminal Justice System

The roles' journey (the exam's arc): the victim as the PARTY (the private prosecution's historical era) → the victim as the EVIDENCE (the state's takeover (the witness-only role)) → the victim as the RIGHTS-HOLDER (the modern restoration (the U4's Nepali frame)); the functional roles today: the INITIATOR (the FIR/complaint (the case's trigger (the police-registration's duty))); the INVESTIGATION's co-operator (the evidence, the identification); the WITNESS (the testimony (the examination's ordeal (the protections' need))); the PARTICIPANT (the victim's statement, the compensation's claim, the appeal's limited faces); the MONITOR (the information's right (the release's notice)); the RESTORATION's party (the melmilap (the reconciliation's consent craft (the compoundable offences' victim's veto))).