Meaning, where crime is a matter that calls on the individual to offer restitution to, at most, the state and to the interested or victimized party, sin is a matter that calls on the individual to offer restitution (by way of confession and penance) to God; it might sometimes involve the state-sanctioned judicial process to which I have just now alluded (when, as I mentioned before, a sin and crime overlap), but more often than not it does not involve that process; because, I suppose, the occasion of sin is a much more frequent and personal matter than is the ‘occasion’ of crime; because it originates in the condition or bearing of one’s soul, and thus does not depend for its reality on narrow, legalistic categories, but can surface at any moment of our days, during any of our interactions, with either ourselves or with others.