Where does crime come from?

Prosecutor Pete Magrino's late-morning line of questioning offered a brief snapshot referendum on the sources of crime. Why, he asked the latest batch of potential jurors in the box, do people commit crime?

"People are on drugs," one man said. "Hanging around the wrong crowd."

"Depression," one woman said. "Social anxiety."

"Peer pressure," another man said. "Drugs. Alcohol."

Typical stuff. Then Magrino got to a woman who moved to South Florida from New Delhi, India, belongs to a senior center quilting group, likes travel, crafts and photography, and has two sons who were in the military and a daughter who was sexually abused by her ex-husband some 30 years ago.

Her answers to the question?

"A lack of feeling good about themselves."

"Not being nurtured as children."

-- Michael Kruse