Friday essay: how do you measure remorse?
- Written by Kate Rossmanith, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
The courts are, or can be, theatres of remorse.Shutterstock
The first court case I ever observed belonged to a woman guilty of murder. She had deliberately run over a young man with her car. I had followed news reports of the trial, for the story seemed so strange, and had seen grainy CCTV footage: the vehicle lunging at the 21-year-old who darts...