Monica, 
I think you're right in general, but there is an element to the whole "justice" thing that gets ignored.  I don't know how to best describe it other than in a very childlike manner.  We were (hopefully) all  taught about good and evil, right and wrong.  That training is also engrained in our culture(s).  We may quibble over "victimless" crimes, or split hairs when the damage is minimal. 

I think there is something almost primal however, when the injury is severe.  Be it the rape of a child, the murder of another, or any number of similarly heinous crimes, when it's YOUR child, YOUR father/son/daughter (etc.) who was murdered, etc., a simple "I'm sorry" just falls really flat.  Crimes like those call for redress, and there is NO shortage of reinforcement in scripture for that.  

This is the problem Francis faces in the church, and what Columbia, and many other places face as well.  Suggestions that people need to "get over it," reduce humans (individuals) to pawns...