Or maybe you have known the pain of a loved one being hurt by some criminal activity, and so you tend to see the victim's perspective. Try to link the antecedent context to the perspective that makes most sense to you. That will help me to bear that context in mind as I lecture. Acoca also suggests that median age of first encounter is 13. Consider that the structure assigns people to roles of different statuses.
Children have lower status, and very little decision-making power until they become adults.
That demands trust in an interdependent relationship in which one member of the dyad has all the power. Consider that war changes relative statuses. Winning the war may become more important a goal than the humanity with which we do so. The November Organization tells the stories of families destroyed by incarceration. These are not voices often heard.