Если это про человека то это:
When I was about 15, I read Helter Skelter, prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi’s account of the Manson Family and the Tate-LaBianca murders. One fact that struck me was that Manson was, for most of his life, a small-time hoodlum who compiled a record for relatively minor crimes like burglary, car theft and foregery long before he became notorious as the leader of a murder cult.
A few years later, as a freshman in college, I was assigned to read In Cold Blood, Truman Capote’s classic crime story about the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. The same pattern was evident: Dick Hickock and Perry Smith had been a couple of minor criminals — forgery, theft, assault, etc. — until they committed the mass murder that made them infamous.
You see this pattern replicated in many other high-profile murders. Matthew Shepard’s killers, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, both had criminal records — one for marijuana possession and the other for burglary. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had been busted as juveniles for a break-in and theft about 14 months before they perpetrated the Columbine High massacre.
This pattern illustrates a common-sense truth so basic that it seems a bit silly to state it directly: Criminals commit crime.
Because of the way crime is portrayed in both the news media and popular entertainment, many Americans have been conditioned to think of murder as a crime to which everyone is equally susceptible. TV detective dramas especially present this distorted perspective, because the element of surprise usually requires that the killer be someone unsuspected — the apparently upstanding citizen whose hidden motive for murder is uncovered in the final 10 minutes of the hour-long mystery. The man-bites-dog angle in journalism means that when a murder is committed by a previously law-abiding person, this fact will be highlighted in news coverage. And sometimes, as in the Shepard murder, the criminal background of the killers will mostly be ignored by media focused on more “newsworthy” elements of the crime.
Contrary to media distortions, criminality is not evenly distributed throughout the population. A small and fairly distinct group of career criminals — recidivists, habitual violators, call them what you will — account for the majority of serious crime in America. This fact was best illustrated in the early 1990s, when transit policy in New York City decided to crack down on subway turnstile-jumpers and discovered that about 15 percent of those apprehended were wanted on warrants for major felonies, including armed robbery, rape and murder.
Murder is simply one end of a continuum of criminality and, therefore, leniency toward “minor” crimes will inevitably result in more murders, as illustrated by the case of a suspected Los Angeles serial killer:
Investigators believe they have connected “Grim Sleeper” suspect Lonnie Franklin Jr. to 10 murders.
Now they are trying to tie him to dozens more.
More than 30 cold case files dating back to 1984 are getting a new look in light of Franklin’s arrest, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said Friday. .
Franklin was arrested at least 15 times for car theft, burglary, assaults and other crimes, but avoided prison despite calls by law enforcement officials for tough sentences, according to Los Angeles County court records released Friday and obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
Franklin faced up to three years in prison in 2003 after pleading no contest to receiving stolen property, He was sentenced to 270 days in jail and released in May 2003, more than four months early, the records showed. Two months later, the body of one of Franklin’s alleged victims was found.
If Franklin is indeed the ”Grim Sleeper,” many victims may have died simply because California authorities failed to imprison him for his “minor” offenses.
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