Transitional justice has emphasized the reconciliation dimension (social and societal), and offers inspiration for dealing with the perpetrator side outside a criminal accountability logic.
Treating them as criminals defies logic as well as morality.
If the poor are a fundamentally defective, lazy and criminal underclass, the logic goes, what good can government aid possibly do?
It's remarkable what a detective series can do, plot-wise, if it dispenses with two abiding irritations in the criminal justice system: logic and lawyers.
The message was that this black man was a criminal, and the logic extended that he therefore deserved his fate.
"The logic of criminal business coincides with the most aggressive neoliberalism," he claims.
With respect to urban gangs, violence is not purely an extension of the logic of criminal activity, but may actually serve as an end goal rooted in identity, gang culture, or a form of ideology.
Such tests, which are commercially available in the United States and are used by law enforcement agencies in several countries, including Japan and India, are based on the logic that criminals will have specific memories of their crime stored in their brain.
This suggests that derivative moral judgements as opposed to facts about drugs – and racialised logic about "criminals" – is shaping UK drug policy.
There is, of course, a distinction between acts of omission and commission, but the court of appeal's twin assertions of female autonomy and the indivisibility of mother and foetus undermine the logic of the criminal law.
Murders can be solved and even explained — at least, that's the operating assumption of criminal investigation and the narrative logic behind every whodunit — but to think about a specific murder with any clarity, or for very long, can be difficult, and viscerally painful.
