“If a man would commit an inexpiable offence against any society, large or small, let him be successful. They will forgive any… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There’s always going to be a criminal element in the population. At least as long as people believe they need politicians.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Money laundering is not a crime. It's just because certain men with guns don't like what other people are doing with their… — Roger Ver Copy Share Image
I never thought I was cut out for a life of crime. I even felt guilty when I accidentally stole a Subbuteo… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
“Sloane wasn't interested. As a police officer he was concerned with crime, not punishment.” — Catherine Aird Copy Share Image
“But until you ask why there’s an increase in social disintegration, and why more and more resources are being directed towards the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
“Any punishment was his catnip. The evil fucker was a sadistic freak who preyed on the weak foraging out their flaws like… — V. Theia Copy Share Image
Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I… — George Washington Copy Share Image
One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America. — Tom Rooney Copy Share Image
“...above all things; to remember that hypocrisy is the most hopeless as well as the meanest of crimes...” — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the… — Elsa Barker Copy Share Image
[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash. — James Chiles Copy Share Image
I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Prison conditions in some parts of the world can be very poor, overcrowded and, in some cases, dangerous and sentences can be… — David Lidington Copy Share Image
“I use the term "punishment bureaucracy" instead of "criminal justice system" because it is a more accurate and less deceptive way to… — Alec Karakatsanis Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family - the corporate criminals,… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. We cannot change anything until we accept that. I cannot do this alone.… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“When I got home I mixed a stiff one and stood by the open window in the living room and sipped it… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if… — Lisa Kudrow Copy Share Image
I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
“Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down...or prisons self-imposed.” — Chriscinthia Blount Copy Share Image
“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.” — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“interview from Ross E. Cheit about The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Oxford University Press, February 2014).… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Then headed for the kitchen. Fuck. I headed through the lounge… …just as two indistinct pitch-black masses, Kevlar laden, shotguns raised, crept… — Morana Blue Copy Share Image