Victim Impact

Homicide becomes more than an academic study for criminologist Ted Boudreau when he comes home to find that his wife has been murdered. To add to his misery, Ted must acknowledge that his computer may have been targeted because of his interest in a secretive biker gang. His reaction to the death brings him into conflict with all around him. His father-in-law believes a parent's grief is privileged above a husband's, and the police would like Ted to be less inclined to meddle in the investigation. Ted himself has always espoused a compassionate approach to criminals, but now, perceiving a disconnect between law and justice, a penal progressive must confront his own inner vigilante. He becomes isolated from colleagues, whose doctrines he no longer believes can stand the test of real-life experience. Is criminal behaviour not conditioned by heredity and environment? Homicide becomes more than an academic study for criminologist Ted Boudreau when he comes home to find that his wife has been murdered. To add to his misery, Ted must acknowledge that his computer may have been targeted because of his interest in a secretive biker gang. His reaction to the death brings him into conflict with all around him. His father-in-law believes a parent's grief is privileged above a husband's, and the police would like Ted to be less inclined to meddle in the investigation. Ted himself has always espoused a compassionate approach to criminals, but now, perceiving a disconnect between law and justice, a penal progressive must confront his own inner vigilante. He becomes isolated from colleagues, whose doctrines he no longer believes can stand the test of real-life experience. Is criminal behaviour not conditioned by heredity and environment?