Causes Quote by Rutherford B. Hayes

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

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

While crime is punished it yet increases.

— Seneca the Younger

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and…

— Jacob Zuma

“When the powerless seek their own sense of control, ‘crime’ is what an unjust system produces.”

— Maurice Broaddus

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

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

Criminality is always the result of poverty.

— Jacob Zuma

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 takes root when household budgets are unable to address the conditions that can lead to despair and violence, and government services and policies…

— Eric Adams

Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as well as…

— Achille Mbembe

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

— Anonymous