The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.
Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.
When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.