Anger is inconsistent with the way we have chosen to define the victim role. Because it is expedient so to do. Fearful victims passively and gratefully accept such support as is given, and such compensation as the state is prepared, however tardily, to provide. The angry victim is liable to vigilantism, informal punishments of the locally troublesome, and may get uppity in the face of the inefficiencies and absurdities of the criminal justice process. Compared to the angry victim, the fearful victim is mercifully compliant.
Angry victims are the ultimate silent majority.
Their real feelings, as the latest research now shows, were not discovered before, and so are not attended to in policy. But it is time to redress the balance.