The trouble, as Rafferty had frequently pointed out when an excess of Jameson's had made him unwisely vocal on the subject, was that so much of the legal process and its administration was in the hands of icy-veined intellectuals, who seemed to think the law was more about arguing legal points that securing justice.
They were so far removed from the mass of the population in their thoughts on the subject that they might as well have been visiting Martians for all the confidence they inspired. And when they were paired with the bleeding heart social workers who thought Johnny could do no wrong, who would never accept that Johnny might just naturally be a nasty, evil little bastard, who liked hurting those weaker than himself, such despair was unsurprising. It's his lack of education, it's
