Ugly People Commit More Crime?

[James_H]

Is it not more likely that the mugshot or film of miscreant being led away in handcuffs is unlikely to be especially flattering? I doubt many people would look especially attractive in those circumstances.

Indeed, just check out The Smoking Gun celeb mugshot archives:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/index.html

Great website!

 

[DerekH16]

Sorry, vague - will clarify later, unless some kind person gets in first...

Winston Silcott, convicted for the murder of PC Keith Blakelock during the Broadwater Farm estate riots in 1985, whose conviction was later quashed - more details and 'then' and 'now' pics here.

 

[Leaferne]

Another good-looking albeit murderous couple: Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo. Looking like a conventionally attractive middle-class couple probably made it easier for them to lure those girls in, in fact--they looked 'safe'.

 

[JamesWhitehead]

Dear Guvnor,

Five years hard I was promised!

I wish to complain about my cell-mates, Frankie "The Cruel" Pustula and Don "The Unusual" Batterfart.

Prison is proving very trying for me; I have such fine bones.

Could I at least have a better-looking pillow?

Adonis Bott:-(

 

[DerekH16]

Maybe the ugly crims were all of average good looks until they tripped on the stairs down to the cells...