The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Joking about violence is not funny.

— Perez Hilton

“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The…

— Johnnie Dent Jr

With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.

— Karin Slaughter

“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that…

— Jay Allan

Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;)

— Nishan Panwar

A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled…

— Edward Abbey

Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely…

— Terry Eagleton

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

— Jacques Barzun

“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,”

— Hugh Howey

A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is…

— Le Ly Hayslip

History is the study of the world's crime

— Voltaire

If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political…

— Edward Snowden

Too much virtue can be criminal.

— Jean Racine

The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons…

— Sally Yates

[P]rogress, however, has not sufficiently infiltrated the Interior Ministry, affording protection to those who participated in the Bytyqi murders and other egregious Milosevic-era crimes.

— Avis Bohlen