“I needed to know, Jesse. I needed to get inside his head. To find this son of a bitch, I need to… — Nina D'Angelo Copy Share Image
Our criminal justice system is failing all of us. It is not keeping us safe. It is contributing to a vicious cycle… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“In my prison cell i sit With my britches full of $hit and my balls are bouncing gently on the floor and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If there's a great story and great characters, then I can love a film in any genre, though crime thrillers and sci-fi… — Ed Gass-Donnelly Copy Share Image
“The shades of the prison house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall,… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Michael Koryta isn’t just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. He’s simply one of today’s finest authors,… — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
All eyes, all attention at the federal level, are on al Qaeda and the war on terror. Fact is, al Qaeda wouldn't… — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image
A lot of people who end up being horrible criminals when they are adults had very abusive childhoods. You can have sympathy… — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
Individual bankers are rightly being investigated by the police. I and all colleagues in the chamber hope that if criminality is proven,… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“This seems to have taken me a long way from detective stories, but explains, perhaps, why I have got more interest in… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default. — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Some of the folks we see are in for defending themselves against their abusers, or drug charges that, because of the California… — Thao Nguyen Copy Share Image
When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
“...people demonize certain types of crime - it's a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Yesterday the market had a murder / crime that innocentchild was just a bit - was the son of an honest man… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
“The lecturer points to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's decision to get engaged while in prison as his "positive statement that life will go on,"… — J. Rufus Fears Copy Share Image
People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime. — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“In court, the thing we punish is the criminal intention. -the mens rea, the guilty mind. There is an ancient rule: actus… — William Landay Copy Share Image
British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography. — Lee Child Copy Share Image