That, says Gaynes, is more or less all we really do offer crime victims. Not healing, or restitution, or accountability—just punishment for the offender. Because as all we know, the American justice system is about wrath and punishment. All we can conceive of with the system we have is maybe, if everything works, to wrench the privileged down into the pit, to lay low the citizens of the Nation and make them crawl beneath the yoke of the Colony.
