Respondents also identified risk factors at an individual level on both the victims' and the perpetrators' sides, yet to a much lesser extent.
In e-mails to the lawyer for a white female student, who had accused a black college quarterback of rape and ultimately appeared in the film, one of the producers expressed the filmmakers' intent to "ambush" him, and explained that "we don't operate the same way as journalists" since the film is "very much in the corner of advocacy for victims" and had no "need to get the perpetrator's side".
And I'm at a loss to see it from the perpetrator's side of the whole thing.
What if victims and perpetrators find themselves side by side in the pews?
One can, however, keep the entire monstrous landscape in view without minimizing the culpability of perpetrators on either side.
So, let's say you group the descendants of the perpetrators on one side and the offspring of Jews on the other then I would assess that one group is unconsciously afraid of being the victims of persecution again, while the other side is taking into consideration the potential of repeated perpetration in certain situations of conflict.
No matter which side the perpetrators are on.
For Pelecanos, we are all just people, desperate to find a way through the murk of existence, investigator and criminal, perpetrator and victim, two sides of an irreconcilable coin.
Behavior on all sides — perpetrators, prosecutors, press — would be more hysterical, more desperate, more inarticulate.
The attacks violate international law, she said, adding that "perpetrators on all sides have to be held accountable".
