The question, as with all related questions, is of far more interest to us as criminologists than any question about crime. What is importance in the study of crime is everything that happens before crime occurs. Thus, the elementary ontological question of the nature of reality remains a pressing one for us. Really real, actually existing. Simply to ask is to realize that reality is existential.
All human perception is subject to the lived experience of everyday life.
Some years ago, during that ontological shift of the 1960s, I sat in the caf s of Greenwich Village, walked the streets of the New York, and participated in the political events of the time. Daily, without ceasing. The president he's got his war. But I can't use it. In those days, I was trying to make my own song.