Vertaling van "were addressing and asking to have changed were always quite controversial " (Engels → Frans) :

A significant observation of ours was that the issues we were addressing and asking to have changed were always quite controversial and sometimes emotional simply because they are usually affecting the lives of human beings, the lives of the offenders and the lives of the innocent victims of crime.
Nous avons noté que les aspects qui nous intéressaient et au sujet desquels nous demandions des changements étaient toujours très controversés et suscitaient parfois beaucoup d'émotions simplement parce qu'ils touchaient la vie d'êtres humains, aussi bien celles des délinquants que celles des innocentes victimes d'actes criminels.

A significant observation we found was that the issues we were addressing and asking to have change were always quite controversial and sometimes emotional, simply because they were usually affecting the lives of human beings, the lives of the offenders and the lives of the innocent victims of crime.
Nous avons souvent observé que les questions que nous traitions et par rapport auxquelles nous demandions des changements étaient très controversées et parfois émotionnelles, simplement parce qu'elles touchent habituellement la vie d'êtres humains, de délinquants et de victimes innocentes de crime.