Quotes About Criminology

I read a lot about serial killers.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

In Victorian criminology there was an enthusiasm for spotting criminal tendencies in a persons features.

The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.

For decades, liberal criminologists have tried to corroborate the Left's cherished belief that the criminal-justice system responds to similarly situated whites and blacks unequally.

So that then begins a sort of rethinking of my idea of criminology," Weisburd said. "Like most other people, my studies were about people. I said, maybe we ought to be more concerned with places.

Most criminals were dumb, and he took the view that the whole science of criminology was essentially flawed, since much of its theory was based on the study of criminals who had been caught, and were therefore either stupid or unlucky, as opposed to the study of those who had not been caught, and were therefore smart and had a little luck on their side, but just a little. Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

The anthropological criminologists tell us that the typical criminal is ugly: monstrum in fronte, monstrum in animo [monstrous in appearance, monstrous in spirit].

Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

The one great universal in the study of violence is that most of it is committed by fifteen-to-thirty-year-old men.

Serial killers operate this way in most cases, with violent psychosexual urges building and then subsiding after a kill.

The desire for revenge can go on indefinitely, said Ekholm. There are no prescribed time limits. It's one of the oldest truths in criminology that an avenger can wait forever. If these are revenge killings, that is.

Medicine, psychology, criminology, sociology. Which treat bodies as machinery (passim Descartes, the "father" of our Western subject). Developing alongside the dirty sciences. Industrialization, Taylorization, automation.

Research had shown that rapists were far more likely than murderers to be serial offenders. Studies had found that between one-fourth to two-thirds of rapists committed multiple sexual assaults. Only about 1 percent of murderers were considered serial killers.

The best estimate of experts like James Alan Fox of the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University is that, at any given time, there are two to three dozen serial killers at large in the country, responsible for the deaths of between one and two hundred victims.

The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.

At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.

Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.

I am really into crime documentaries.

To draw up a profile one needs extensive knowledge of the social sciences, including psychology, criminology and ethnology, as well as experience and a gut feeling.