Remarks on the Interaction of Perpetrator and Victim

part of the injured individual. You may be wounded, killed, robbed or swindled without your own conduct affecting or modifying the final detrimental outcome. In other cases the relation between offender and offended person is only slight and general, and pertains to the common facts of life. Possession of money has certainly to do with robbery, and prettiness or youth are contributing factors in criminal assaults. There is some reciprocal action between perpetrator and victim in such cases; this juncture, however, is not specific, and therefore presents no changeable and preventible relation.