Jack Levin
Jack Levin
Jack Levinspecializes in research on murder, prejudice and hate, sociology of aging and sociology of conflict at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He has interviewed and corresponded with brutal killers, such as the Hillside Strangler and Charles Manson, and other violent criminals: serial killers and rapists, mass murderers, and vicious hatemongers. He is also asked by news and television reports to comment on important occurrences of homicide or hate. Along with interviews, writing material, teaching classes and research Levin has...
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth28 June 1941
I've studied family massacres for more than 20 years. First of all, it's almost always the husband or father, (and) in almost every case he has suffered some kind of catastrophic loss.
You just don't have to think about it too much because almost everybody is impoverished. Believe me, the wealthy citizens of New Orleans evacuated.
We forget just how manipulative and shrewd and crafty some of these guys are. They have the street smarts necessary to convince these women that they're innocent guys and that they're genuinely in love.
I would say he's euphoric at this point. If we don't stop him, he will kill again.
Most serial killers kill at home as a hobby on a part-time basis. But (I think) this guy has made it into a career. He roams the country and he could be in my state next, in your state next, and that's very terrifying,
Maybe he had a friend who was abused by an offender or a sibling or someone in his past who was very close. It doesn't have to be him. It could be an intimate in his life.
We're having the best time of our lives.
You don't give the perpetrators a slap on the wrist.
apparently nobody noticed before this disaster that the crime rate was always extremely high in New Orleans.
The most important thing we've learned since the mid-'90s is that there's plenty we can do to clean up bad neighborhoods.
We make celebrities out of serial killers. They're glamorized and romanticized. People forget about the gruesome details of their crimes.
These things take a while to sink in before people decide they're not going to take it anymore. I don't think we're there yet.
In some cases, this may actually make the difference. It has an impact on those people who aren't rigidly in favor of the death penalty, but who could still change their minds.
I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work.