Inside the Criminal Mind

Understanding the Dark Side of Human Conduct

by Dr. Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D.

Where Is the Excitement in Responsible Living?

By Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D. on January 19, 2012 in Inside the Criminal Mind

Many times I have been asked how responsible living can possibly replace the excitement that is the oxygen of the criminal's life. First, there is nothing wrong with "excitement." Most people want to do more than work, pay bills, and have their car repaired. Read More

I sure wish you would STOP scapegoating criminals

Submitted by Kelly Cash on January 20, 2012 - 3:29am.

It excites me. The "us vs. them" dichotomy (division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups) is ALWAYS oxygen for war.

If I was you, I wouldn't piss off the criminal in a recession because he's got guns silly rabbit!

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Wow, this article is so

Submitted by Jeffrey AC on January 20, 2012 - 11:43am.

Wow, this article is so ridiculously stupid that I am lost for words. Some uptight tweed blazer wearing Ph.d thinks that criminals are in it for excitement? Oh, yeah, sure. Living in constant fear for your life, watching your loved ones suffer, feeling rejected by society, struggling to combat poverty -- that's all very exciting.

To people like Stanton Samenow, a criminal is a person raised just like him, laying in their upper middle class bed one morning deciding that their life just doesn't have enough excitement in it, so they're going to go clothes shopping for some gangbanger getups and become a criminal.

Mind-boggling ridiculous.