Criminal Justice System and Victims of Crime in Benue sta...
Adoko, Owoicho
Victims of crime in Benue state suffer double jeopardy, they start first as victims at the hands of criminals and end up as victims of the criminal justice system which only uses them as instruments of identifying the offenders, aiding the criminal justice process by testifying against the suspect and helping the courts to link the suspect(s) with the crime. However as soon as the courts succeed in making use of the victim, the attention is sh...