Kenko Yoshida Quotes

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

I'm interested in people who are very close to the people who commit crimes.

A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.

The number one cause of crime is criminals.

National criminal behavior is always defined by the perpetrator’s compulsion to forgetting. Secrecy and silence are the first line of defense. If that fails, the perpetrator’s attacks on the credibility of the victims.

My approach to the story... is if you can get into a criminal's mind and understand how it works and understand how crime is committed, you can help prevent it from happening to someone else.

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

Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

With a character like James Bulger, you have to approach him as a human. No one wakes up in the morning and says, as they are brushing their teeth, 'I am going to do something evil today.' He was a businessman - in his business, the violence was just part of his job, let's say. It was also the language of the people he associated with and opposed.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Crime is a job and it's boring. It's also unpleasant.

Study the history of almost any criminal and you find an inveterate cigarette smoker

If you will study the history of almost any criminal you will find that he is an inveterate cigarette smoker.

Who knows what is really going on within a criminal enterprise? Criminals

It is not always easy to draw the line between a hero and a lunatic. Practically we dub him sane if he succeeds and the reverse if he fails. Seriously, what a mockery the whole prison system is. We must not only allow our convict population to be bred, but we must pamper and pet them, send them to prison to recruit their health, let them out at intervals to propagate their kind and commit the same crimes, then lock them up again, and continue the same weary round ad infinitum. The imitative instinct is no where more developed than in the tendency to crime. Hundreds of cases of juvenile depravity have been traced to the poisonous influence of penny novelties and sensational serials, bristling with deeds of burglary and blood

There's something quite fascinating with crooks and criminals and all things against the law.

I think the killers get far too much attention.

It doesn't matter what color you are. Poverty is poverty. Inmates come from all walks of life. We have to make sure we look out for these people and give them a chance.

I love the idea of getting into the mind of the criminal.

Our criminal institutions are full of creeps like you who do wrong things, and many of them were driven to these crimes by the horrible force called music.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

atrophy of feeling creates criminals.