Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take… — Bill James Copy Share Image
“As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is… — Sarah Bakewell Copy Share Image
“For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“We see insurmountable multitudes obeying, in opposition to their strongest passions, the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive, and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“In fact, until the last moments of his life, until the last seconds as he gasped for breath, he never realised how… — Stephen Craig Copy Share Image
Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Has the international criminal court avoided opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza due to political pressure. The answer is… — Fatou Bensouda Copy Share Image
“The apparatus of corrective penality acts in a quite different way. The point of application of the penality is not the representation,… — Michel Foucalut Copy Share Image
Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
“There is a gulf between the image and reality of the punishment bureaucracy. Copaganda creates that gulf. It is the system of… — Alec Karakatsanis Copy Share Image
No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“If you’re not a criminal, then what are you doing stealing all these swords and things?” For a moment he was silent.… — Laura Kinsale Copy Share Image
A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
“Kaffman (2009) described childhood victimization as a "silent epidemic", and Finkelhor, Turner, Ormrod, and Hamby (2010) reported that children are the most… — Christine A. Courtois Copy Share Image
“When a child disappears, the space she’d occupied is immediately filled with dozens of people. And these people—relatives, friends, police officers, reporters… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“A second red-orange spearhead leaps straight at O'Shaughnessy. The whole world seems to stand still. Then the gun behind it crashes, and… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
To be stripped of your freedom, to be stripped of your dignity and the respect you once had, to lose it all… — Brian Banks Copy Share Image
I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do Harry Potter or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction,… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I have a suggestion that I think would help fight serious crime. Signs. There are lots of signs for minor infractions: No… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
This stereotype that Black and brown boys and girls are dangerous or threatening has normalized systems of trauma: the cradle to prison… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
“The White House, that whole criminal mob, those arrogant goons who see themselves as justified to operate above the law-they disgrace democracy… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Part of this is related to the vast apparatus created to administer the criminal-justice system; part is related to the new laws… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Sometimes, to help someone you love, you have to commit a felony. But, you don't want to go to prison for that.… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I am interested in the creativity of the criminal attitude because I recognize in it the existence of a special condition of… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which we are able to communicate very quickly in many different ways, and yet we find… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
“When John-Joseph Heller's fights became too much of a sure thing, story has it he moved on to more risky fights with… — S.C. Barrus Copy Share Image
“Early in life, stalkers learned how to hate, but unlike common criminals, they learned self-restraint also. They held their hatred in check.… — Michael Prescott Copy Share Image
“Violent crime is at an all-time low in our country, yet numerous studies show that crime is a significant portion of news… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
![“As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous, and that those behind it have exceptional powers of resistance. [On witchburning in France during the 16th Century.]” quote by Sarah Bakewell](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f48/sarah-bakewell-24972_crime_as-history-has-repeatedly-suggested-noth_1718454.jpg)
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