Childhood, formative experiences, family background, social relationships, trauma...

We constantly trace and search for the motives of criminals, exploring their most subtle joys, angers, sorrows, and pleasures—not to sympathize with them by putting ourselves in their shoes, nor to forgive them, nor to excuse their crimes, nor to kneel before the so-called complexity of human nature, nor to reflect on social contradictions, and certainly not to turn ourselves into monsters as well—

We are simply seeking a just explanation for ourselves, and for those who still hold hope for this world.