If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Arizona did not make illegal, illegal. It is a crime to enter or remain in the U.S. in violation of federal law.… — Russell Pearce 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
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city. — George Moscone Copy Share Image
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“many former sins have become crimes’, so that responsibility for dealing with them has passed from church to state, from priest to… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“Stay home and the crooks win. They get the night, by default and concession, the night which should rightly belong to all… — Claire Cross Copy Share Image
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The Home Office culture was one of being just above the problem, of hovering just out of reach of knowing what was… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
“Until about 1970 when parents beat their children to death they very often escaped punishment. They would be prosecuted if it was… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“If we found a ticket to Disneyland would you think we should arrest Mickey Mouse?” — Diane L. Randle Copy Share Image
“Hopefully not another employee stealing credit cards, Brooke mused. Or any sort of headache-inducing “oops moment,” like the time one of the… — Julie James Copy Share Image
Criminality is now legal. I guess criminal racketeering these days would be like burning little children at the stake or something. That's… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
