I feel you. I wish I had something insightful I could say, but unfortunately, I'm pretty much at a loss for words. I think I'll just say that the ideas of social stigmatization in general and "crime" in particular are huge and often difficult to grasp. Everything from economics to psychology to culture all bind up in a massive knot that's hard to unravel and it's something countless people devote their entire careers to working on. Sometimes we as societies take a few steps forward, sometimes we as societies take a few steps back, but I think overall as we learn more about ourselves our tools for tackling a lot of social problems become more sophisticated and we do a better job. Worldwide communication has helped a lot in that regard it seems. Partly because the exchange of ideas and information helps to create better policies and decisions and partly because our exposure to the world at large is showing us how human we all really are.