Right.
As Mr. Paterson alluded to, it's always a difficult balance, but ultimately we need to make an individualized assessment about the person in question, and that needs to be based on the dangerousness level that they present at the present time. I can't comment on how a given family member of a victim would interpret that. I imagine that some would view an offender who had shown true remorse and truly rehabilitated himself as a positive development. There are some who there would be no way that they could ever come to that view. It's difficult to make a rational determination based on sound penal principles and assessment of risk by looking at individual cases about how a victim in a specific case is going to react to the release of an offender.