Susan Estrich Quotes

Physically, no one would ever consider me for the serial-killer lady.

I read a lot about serial killers.

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why he's doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's just had a bad childhood and that's why he's eating people.' Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

Many psychopaths describe the traditional treatment programmes as finishing schools where they hone their skills. Where they find out that there are lots of techniques they had not thought about before.

I've always been fascinated by accounts of seemingly 'normal' people who have committed horrendous acts of cruelty and violence. You hear it on the news all the time.

Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.

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.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone

The alternative to shock therapy is very often shock without the therapy.

Let those who have been robbers, now become knights.

Violent felons and people with mental health problems need to be rehabilitated.

As far as Raman Raghav is concerned, he is ruthless.

If we were going to look at how pharmalogical drugs influence crime, we should probably look at alcohol.

If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

One of my younger homies, he went to jail, and some people came to me and were like, "Bail him out," and I said no. Why would I bail him out? He's going to prison. Let him sit and get some time served. You want to be crazy, but you don't want to go to jail. You want to shoot people, but you don't want to kill people. That's such a misleading thing.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.