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
apparently nobody noticed before this disaster that the crime rate was always extremely high in New Orleans.
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,
I would say he's euphoric at this point. If we don't stop him, he will kill again.
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.
We make celebrities out of serial killers. They're glamorized and romanticized. People forget about the gruesome details of their crimes.
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 am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work.
I think healthy competition is good for business, and really at the end best for end-users. Just think about what Android would have been if it was not for iPhone - a better blackberry?
Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.
Gossip, then, is content, a message about people; rumor is a process. It takes a bit of gossip and reshapes it, modifies it in some way, and passes it along from individual to individual in different ways.
Bigotry and hatred and prejudice rise and fall depending on certain situations.
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.