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John E. Douglas Quotes

Total quotes: 5
“No one suddenly becomes a child abuser... or anything else. There is always evolutionary behavior, a pattern of thought and act.”
— Mark Olshaker, John E. Douglas, The Cases That Haunt Us: From Jack the Ripper to Jon Benet Ramsey, The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Sheds New Light on the Mysteries That Won't Go Away
Tagged: Why people are such dicks, Crime, Motive
“If surface behavior were that easy to interpret, it would take little or no training and anyone could be a profiler.”
— Mark Olshaker, John E. Douglas, The Cases That Haunt Us: From Jack the Ripper to Jon Benet Ramsey, The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Sheds New Light on the Mysteries That Won't Go Away
Tagged: true crime
“It’s important to keep in mind here that insanity is a legal concept, not a medical or psychiatric term. It doesn’t mean someone is or is not “sick.” It has to do with whether that person is or is not responsible for his or her actions.”
— John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
Tagged: Insanity, Mental Health Day, Why people are such dicks
“The stories and legends that have filtered down about witches and werewolves and vampires may have been a way of explaining outrages so hideous that no one in the small and close-knit towns of Europe and early America could comprehend the perversities we now take for granted. Monsters had to be supernatural creatures. They couldn’t be just like us.”
— John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
Tagged: Crime, Why people are such dicks, monsters, creepy, Serial Killers
“Now, despite impressive advances in science and technology, despite the advent of the computer age, despite many more police officers with far better and more sophisticated training and resources, the murder rate has been going up and the solution rate has been going down. More and more crimes are being committed by and against “strangers,” and in many cases we have no motive to work with, at least no obvious or “logical” motive.”
— John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
Tagged: Crime, Why people are such dicks
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