Letters to the Editor
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Post-traumatic psychology
PTSD puts you in a state of eternal watchfulness and hypervigilance. It's not a good mindset for the rest of society but when you've been traumatized, that's what your brain does to you.
You're willing to sacrifice the innocent to protect yourself from further trauma. That's how the brain is built to react, unfortunately, when it's been damaged by violence.
That's why it's just as important to concentrate on healing the victim as it to work to incarcerate the perpetrator, IMHO.
It's important for society, because you're not going to have an open society if the population has too much unhealed and untreated PTSD.
Unfortunately, the crime victims' movement does not encourage healing. It encourages hypervigilance, which is the opposite of healing.