Crime Quote by Eric Adams

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

— George Pelecanos

Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it's because youths don't have jobs. Or you might say that's because the doors of…

— Evgeny Morozov

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

— Rush Limbaugh

Crime is a violation of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Justice involves the victim, the offender and the community…

— Howard Zehr

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race…

— Bill Bennett

Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I think there is a lot of crime caused by desperation, and it doesn't mean that people commit crime because they're poor, but certainly…

— Peter Moskos

Job insecurity, debt servitude, poverty, incarceration and a growing network of real and symbolic violence have entrapped too many young people in a future…

— Henry Giroux

Poverty is the mother of crime.

— Marcus Aurelius

In a country that provides no subsidized child care and no mandatory family leave, no assurance of flexibility in the workplace for parents, no…

— Kim Brooks

Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of…

— Clarence Darrow

Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into…

— Emma Goldman