“ There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective.… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people… — Lee Tergesen Copy Share Image
“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes...was never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who… — Benjamin Crump Copy Share Image
You're about to meet a new great dame of crime fiction in Death Was the Other Woman. Linda L. Richards does a… — Linda Fairstein Copy Share Image
I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I'm certain prison is pretty rough as it is but imagine if you were a murderer and a foodie! — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
I was prosecutor for 18 years. I was threatened by drug dealers, murders, and organized crime. This was a walk in the park. — Tom Marino Copy Share Image
“There was noise in the corridor outside Alice’s office; and though it was nothing of concern, they separated. Roger stood, fingers tucked… — Andrew Barrett Copy Share Image
Poverty is not an accident of, sort of, an economic spreadsheet. Poverty is a crime. There are criminals involved. And those criminals… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual? — Raphael Lemkin Copy Share Image
Misuse of the Koran to provide legitimacy for violence is common, particularly in Europe, where terrorists tend not to be well-educated Muslims. — Mia Bloom Copy Share Image
A Crime So Monstrous is a remarkably brave and unflinching piece of reportage and storytelling. Ben Skinner bears witness, sharing stories so… — Alex Kotlowitz Copy Share Image
Incarceration rates - especially black incarceration rates - have soared regardless of whether crime has been going up or down in any… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I want to punish them. I want that punishment to be so hard, so vicious that the next who takes their place… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity… — Federica Mogherini Copy Share Image
“A murderer is seldom content with one crime. Give him time, and a lack of suspicion, and he’ll commit another” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Scatterbrain is one of those harmless little words you use a million times... Then it turns up in a crime scene description. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
Andrew..,' I shake my head, tears rolling my cheeks, '... it was always you," I whisper harshly. 'Even with Ian, I felt… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
Don't you think it would be better to legalize victimless crimes like drugs & prostitution & divert the resources to more important… — Larry King Copy Share Image
For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody,… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
Give me time to realize my crime. Let me love and steal I have danced inside your eyes. — Culture Club Copy Share Image
I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they're not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“We all have the potential to commit the crime. We chose not to. Every single day, we chose not to. I am… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Yeah, the club was dark but so's the whole country. When someone important goes missing, or the case is interesting enough, everybody… — Charlie Donlea Copy Share Image
We want the clear facts to be reported that we, according to the FBI, have a lower violent crime rate than Atlanta,… — Marc Morial Copy Share Image
