Yes, let's be clear. I've been very candid all the way along, and people are free to disagree with me. I felt that the message that was sent down to everyone in the system was quite a harsh one, and it was listened to. There was quite an emphasis put on, “Are you remorseful for what you did?” Remorse is not irrelevant. If you show remorse, in a sense you're acknowledging you did something wrong. You know that you shouldn't have done it, and it's the starting point then for rehabilitation.
To have that as a primary factor.... There are people who never feel remorse, first of all because they feel they did not commit the crime—and many of them are right—but also because it's not in their makeup. That doesn't necessarily mean that they can't be rehabilitated or live safely in society. This notion that you must really almost grovel and display constant remorse may be unrealistic, and it's not necessarily the most important factor in determining your risk of reoffending. I did feel for a period of time that there was far too much emphasis on that, to the detriment of other more scientific factors, in assessing risk.