Crime Quote by Jan Karon

“Incarceration seems to have been obtained in consequence of Mrs. Packard using her reason and, not as reported, by her losing her reason.”

— Emily Mann

“But then she reminded herself that there were plenty of people who were afraid of the police, even if they had clear consciences. These…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Officer Downing pulls into the driveway next to Mom's car. Of course she's home. I don't know why I even wasted hope that she…

— Anna Banks

“How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Sloane wasn't interested. As a police officer he was concerned with crime, not punishment.”

— Catherine Aird

“Snapping shut his mobile, Dalgliesh reflected that murder, a unique crime for which no reparation is ever possible, imposes it own compulsions as well…

— P.D. James

“The sheriff handed her down, but with so many looking on he had little choice if he wished to appear civilized. She turned and…

— Bella Bowen

“Did his crime give others some kind of implicit permission to behave the same way, reverberating on and on into the future?”

— Elizabeth Garden

“Somehow suspension sounded way worse than detention. Detention happens to everybody. Suspension, though - that's for the sociopaths. I wasn't a hundred percent sure…

— Katie Alender

“I sat in the emergency room staring at all these people who were so concerned about Rita. The thing was, I had a feeling…

— Toy

“She’d decided a stranger had walked into the community and violated it, sliced into her world, taken her child away from her. Too much…

— Amanda Kyle Williams

“When you get a good, honest exchange with an officer in this situation, normally it restores your faith in your profession, boosts you up…

— Gilly Macmillan