Do you think a criminal can change?

If you suck one cock you are a cocksucker, same thing with crime.

Well it's all creepy psychopaths who turn to Christianity these days so I'm not surprised. That I wonder how much has to do with rhe actual teachings of Jesus..

I do truly believe David has changed.

SHIT! Yesterday was Killing Spree Day! Dammit, now I'm gonna have to reschedual that.

First we need to learn what makes a criminal a criminal; it's all about upbringing. If a person is brought up in a violent, hateful world it's really hypocritical to expect them to be any better. Criminals do on a small scale what society does on a large scale, meaning we are all reflections of our genes and our upbringing. Genetic disorders to come into play, but many seemingly healthy people end up doing heinous things so that cannot be it. So they can *theoretically* become better, but you can't blame them if they don't.

I cant answer this since you are summing up crime as one. There is different levels of crime. They even have different levels at jails too. Stealing, loitering, not paying a ticket, grand theft auto, Hacking, technical terrorism. Vehicular manslaughter, manslaughter, negligent manslaughter, child endangerment, 1,2,3 degree murder, rape, wrongful imprisonment, Molestation. So depends what crime.

I would say a car thief is more likely to change than say a serial killer. Also there is much less at stake when a nonviolent offender gets a second chance.

If a car thief gets paroled and re-offends it's not a big deal because it was just a car he or she stole but if a serial killer gets paroled and re-offends it's a life or lives lost.

Yeah sure havent you seen dead man walking?

depends on the criminal. lying, cheating and denying God is a crime in the bible and on Earth so can criminals change? I don't know, can they?

The only reason I haven't been killing anyone lately is because of the cops.

We live in a very dark world. From stories of
murderers walking free to killers boasting
about their crimes on Facebook to terrorists
targeting innocent civilians, experience
shows time and again that a real-life “happy
ending” is more than most victims can
expect. However, sometimes a flicker of
humanity can be found in even the most
hardened killer’s soul.

By any sane measure, the story of Wayne
Adam Ford is a disturbing one. An ex-Marine
and trucker, Ford was responsible for the
sadistic murder of four prostitutes—raping,
beating, torturing, and dismembering them.
By 1998, it looked like Ford was gearing up
to become a prolific serial killer, potentially
destroying the lives of dozens more women
and their families. Then, on November 3 of
that year, an odd thing happened, something
so out of character for a violent, sexually
sadistic killer that it almost defies logic:
Ford walked into a California police station
and turned himself in.
For a serial killer, this was an almost
unprecedented move. Most serial killers are
sociopaths, missing the part of their brain
responsible for empathy. They wouldn’t be
able to commit such awful crimes otherwise.
But Ford not only confessed to the killings,
he wept while doing so, showed remorse,
and claimed he wanted nothing more than to
die and no longer be a threat to other
people. In other words, against all logic, this
perverted killer had had a change of heart.
Now, this story needs some qualifiers: The
fact he turned himself in doesn’t excuse
what Ford had already done. Nor does his
remorseful confession mean anything more
than there was still a flickering of humanity
somewhere in his soul, buried under layers
of ugliness. But it does show how even the
worst killers can sometimes come back from
the brink, even when it seems too late.