Here's my view of this theory. I partly agree with Tom and Mr. Green.
Bad action is relative to one's standard of good or bad. How much you deviate from your standards in a worse way, determines the level of intrinsic negative effect left in your soul/self (call it negative imprints, whatever). This is an analogy of the Conservation of Momentum or Conservation of Energy, if you know what I mean. I can cite several examples, and some equations of paired reactions. Actions are always paired-up.
However, imho, these "imprints" are in constant change, too, within the self. Imprints are vibrational energies and they are not eternally fixed. Deviate from your standards in a better way, and the negative imprints are lessened.
Your karmic account is only contained in your self. It has nothing to do with other souls. OK, you kick someone's ass, she got hurt. In your future life, she will kick your ass, too, metaphorically speaking. This cannot be as simple as that.
The fact is, there is no evidence for such return of karmic account. Our legal system is not even a proof of such return, and a lot of times an innocent victim is punished. And so you can not extrapolate. To extrapolate is to accuse and to accuse is to commit sin. That is so grave!!!
So what is the reason why someone is raped or murdered for no apparent reason. We don't know, honestly speaking.
Talking about logic, we can represent it by a chain of thoughts.
Premise: Bad action implies some form of punishment in the soul [because the soul deviate from its standards causing an intinsic negative imprints in his self].
Conclusion: If the soul was punished, then he must have done a bad action.
THIS IS A TOTALLY FALSE CONCLUSION!!!
The logical truth of the Premise is: If the soul is NOT punished, then he did NOT do bad action.
In reality, no one is not punished. So it is a null set. The moment you are born, you already experienced discomfort and so you cry out. And if you look everywhere, everyone is being punished in one form or the other. Punishment takes away negative imprints in the soul. Punishment is a "betterment" to the soul's state in the external or physical way and so it must create a lessening of a negative imprints.
Overpunishment, like being raped or murdered for no apparent reason, must therefore create a blissful imprints in the soul [by logical induction].