Amount Quote by Eric Holder

I grew up in a very working-class area with a high crime rate and when I first started to break away from my social…

— Bez

Crime is a product of social excess.

— Vladimir Lenin

The wider public is clueless about the social breakdown in high-crime areas and its effect on street life.

— Heather Mac Donald

Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.

— Theresa May

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

Crime is a complex socio-economic problem, and it requires a comprehensive and aggressive approach that includes supporting law enforcement, empowering communities, coordinating with local…

— Wes Moore

“In addition, when a neighborhood's crime victims are portrayed as victims-sympathetically and without blame, as humans rather than as statistics-people living in other parts…

— Barry Glassner

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe…

— Anonymous

“The main reason that violence correlates with low socioeconomic status today is that the elites and the middle class pursue justice with the legal…

— Steven Pinker

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is…

— Agatha Christie

The community does not fight crime well by chasing it; after-the-fact, crime has won and the target of violence is injured or worse. Crime…

— John Longenecker

I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to get into…

— Al Sharpton