Criminology Quotes

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

  Monica Lewinsky

  Might, Fbi

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Expression, Punishment, Death Penalty

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• In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently what is often regarded as "political" activity is in fact a criminal activity.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Men, Criminals, Tribes

  "A New Model of the Universe" by P.D. Ouspensky, (p. 37-38), 1932.

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• Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up.

  Douglas Adams

  Blood, Lunch, People

  Douglas Adams (2014). “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Needs, Disease, Crime

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• Gun control advocates used to claim that more guns meant more crime. Research demonstrated, though, that more guns meant less crime. As the criminology argument faded, gun control advocates began arguing guns were a public health problem.

  Steven Milloy

  Gun, Political, Research

  "Gun Control Science Misfires" by Steven Milloy, www.foxnews.com. October 31, 2002.

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• My father is a cultural anthropologist and my mother ran an outpatient clinic and treated a lot of people who had been institutionalised. I was very fascinated with behaviour and criminology and why people do things that don't make any sense. I would probe my mother: "Why? Why would somebody do this?" And look for some causality between someone's mental state and their behaviour. I think it had a lot of influence on me.

  Eliza Hittman

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Jeremy Renner

  Jobs, Thug, College

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