>>>Involving the victim in sentencing and parole changes it from one based on the rule of law to one where the rules of man, namely emotion and vengence, are considered. Picture lady justice taking a peek beneath her blindfold.
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>>Over here victims have the option to enter the process as co-plaintiff at own cost in non-civil cases to make sure some overworked DA does not push the case aside. As they are not involved in sentencing, in my view Justitias blindfold is still in place - telling her in detail is not wrong, as wax in ear was proscribed for Odysseus and for a different situation. Parole in my definition is not based on rule of law, so yes, include the victim.
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>Sounds like your system merges the civil and criminal to ensure victim is heard during the trial phase. I see no issue with this, after all I would assume the victim to be the main witness in any such case.

There still is a separate civil case (although some effort is made to allow subsuming civil law points if criminal trial is opened). Most of the times the work is making sure a case is not closed before trial and having a seat in plea-bargaining sessions AFAIK - IANAL...