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
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'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 don't give the perpetrators a slap on the wrist.
The most important thing we've learned since the mid-'90s is that there's plenty we can do to clean up bad neighborhoods.
These are people who are alienated and don't really identify with their fellow residents in any positive way. They feel the tragedy is an opportunity for them.