Pearson's harrowing account is like the true-crime counterpart to Get Carter, an indispensable cultural artefact deeply ingrained, for better or worse, in the fabric of modern British masculinity - because everyone's read it.
I always wanted to work for its lesser-known trivial crimes counterpart.
And in January, lawmakers in Massachusetts introduced a bill to raise the age of adulthood in matters of crime, and their counterparts in Wisconsin and North Carolina intend to do the same.
Aquinas, and this also Aristotle, who goes on thinking, he says, well of course it's always very difficult to find exact counterparts between crime and punishment.
Home Secretary Jack Straw said alcohol was a key contributing factor in the higher number of street crimes, but his Conservative counterpart, Ann Widdecombe, told the House of Commons that the blame lay with the Labor Government and the dwindling number of police officers.
She made three thoughtful choices: not singling out sexual assault for special treatment but treating all felony offenses the same; leaving minor misconduct under command control but sending felony cases to military lawyers; and leaving full responsibility for "military" crimes (those without civilian counterpart) with commanders.
African Americans of all ages are also more likely to be victims of serious violent crime than their white counterparts, making them more likely to meet the diagnostic criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder.
There is a greater bias against same-gender sex crimes than heterosexual counterparts.
But does anyone believe Bulgarian judges, as a group, are as determined to crack down on organised crime as, say, their Swedish counterparts?
That's the thing that distinguishes Shakespeare's confessions from their more commonplace counterparts in conventional crime fiction and drama: while the television bad guy usually sweats as he confesses to the terrible thing, the keynote in Shakespeare's villains' self-directed speeches isn't ambivalence or tormented self-recognition but complacency.
The frequency of offending is more concentrated among male offenders and the males who repeatedly offend are responsible for a slightly greater proportion of crime than are their female counterparts.
