We've all heard about questionable practices carried out by large corporations, and Dow and Monsanto often make the list of classically "evil" offenders, like Enron, or Philip Morris, or Build-A-Bear Workshop.
Det Supt Ray Higgins said Read, a convicted sex offender, was "evil".
In Skizzen's muddled museum, nature and man are equal offenders, unranked evil is everywhere middling, happenstance and massacre stand cheek by jowl in chorus, there can be no worse or worser.
He is now working on a book urging the profession not to shrink from thinking in terms of evil when appraising certain offenders, even if the E-word cannot be used as part of an official examination or diagnosis.
Though others might instinctively become more hardened by these malicious acts or might simply dismiss the offenders as evil, Stevenson responds differently.
"What are you going to do, kill somebody twice?" In most cases, hate crime laws take offenses that would carry more modest sentences — assault, vandalism — and ratchet up the penalty two or three times because we know, or think we know, what evil disposition lurked in the offender's mind.
Social media tribes tend to divide the world into good and evil, and seek to punish offenders, not promote understanding and change a dynamic that is almost certainly aggravated by foreign-sponsored social media accounts that aim to play on America's social divisions.
This doesn't even preface the fact that cigarettes are now thought of as a greater evil to children than sex offenders.
MIAMI — In both word and deed, Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County has long approached crime fighting as a moral quest, a clear-cut fight between good and evil, with no-nonsense punishments for offenders.
