Genetics, accidents of birth or events in early childhood have left criminals’ brains and bodies with measurable flaws predisposing them to committing assault, murder and other antisocial acts. …. Many offenders also have impairments in...

If a deadly snake slithering around in a pre-school bit a child, would you box it up for a month as punishment, and then release it to prey upon the children once again?

We are all capable of becoming something monstrous.

Aside from criminology, I’d say archaeology has the highest body count.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

Every society has the criminals that it deserves.

The deviant and the conformist…are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.

…And eventually, he (Charles Manson) testified to an empty court, as Bugliosi had convinced the presiding judge Older, that Manson’s hypnotic powers might convince the jury he was innocent.