12 Criminology Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips)

A selection of criminology quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

1 Amputate a man's leg, and he can still feel it tickling.

Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs

2 Oh! Hi, cannon. Oh, I think you and I have met before, cannon. Maybe on a ballistics report on my desk. Do you suppose?

Telly Savalas as Lt. Theo Kojak in Kojak

3 Would you feel the face and jaw, please? Am I mistaken, or has rigor begun? -It has.

Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

4 As you know, the loss of heat from the brain is the most reliable way of determining time of death. Right, Chief? -Oh, yeah.

Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

5 We can also learn a dozen things from a a cigarette. Anybody who smokes a cigarette reveals secrets through the saliva that remain on the end. Even though many months have elapsed since it was smoked.

Edward G. Robinson as Detective Johnny Blake in Bullets or Ballots (1939)

6 Is this Lecter's handwriting?

Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs

7 Yeah. Ballistics identified the make of the weapon. A nine-millimeter Browning, silencer equipped.

Telly Savalas as Lt. "Theo" Kojak in Kojak

8 Well, there was no way he could have known. He hadn't seen the ballistics report.

Telly Savalas as Lt. "Theo" Kojak in Kojak

9 Ballistics is checking on the slug. We're sure it's a 30-06. Seven lands and grooves, right-hand twist...

Clint Eastwood as Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry (1971)

10 Are you trying to tell me Ballistics can't match the bullet up to this rifle?

Clint Eastwood as Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry (1971)

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