Quotes About Crime

Your ghost,' she said, 'Nicholas Nickleby. Do you think he might still be at the crime scene?' 'How should I know?' I said. 'I don't even believe in ghosts.

It had a long and varied history, mostly involving crime, prostitution and the theater,

faith among the rank and file that everyone above superintendent has had their sense of irony surgically removed. Often the word "proactive" is added at the front to create a kind of litany. O lead us intelligently into the valley of the shadow of limited resources so that we might make our crime targets before the end of the Home Office reporting period—Amen.

We should tell forensics that the murder weapon may be archaeological," I said. "Archaeological?" asked Seawoll. "Could be," I said. "Is that your professional opinion?" "Yes.

Ben Aaronovitch

The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.

After the Civil War, Worth drifted, like so many veterans, to New York City, which by the mid-1860s was already one of the most concentratedly criminal places on earth. The politicians were up for sale, the magistrates and the police were corrupt

only ever stole from those who had money to spare and remained adamant that crime need not involve thuggery: the Pinkertons found it astonishing that "throughout his career he never used a revolver or jeopardized the life of a victim.

Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.

the Existence of Deity, that he made the World, and govern'd it by his Providence; that the most acceptable Service of God was the doing Good to Man; that our Souls are immortal; and that all Crime will be punished and Virtue rewarded either here or hereafter...

D?vod vytvo?ení tolika trestných ?in? je stejný, jako vždy byl u všech diktatur: pot?eba udržovat ob?any ve strachu a nev?domosti, co sm?jí a co nesm?jí, a možnost trestat kohokoli kdykoli za cokoli.

I meet many inspiring individuals who have worked hard to rebuild their lives after an attack; however, it can be hard to stay motivated when the justice system does not always reflect the severity of these crimes.

I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

Blacks were more likely to be sentenced to prison following a conviction, but that result reflected their past crimes and the gravity of their current offense.

Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

Any effort to destabilise any government, taking refuge in one's ideology for promoting violence, conspiring to destabilise and break the country, I feel there cannot be a bigger crime than this.

The refusal to snitch out of a pathological hatred for police is nothing new.

A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.

Incarceration rates, especially black incarceration rates, have soared regardless of whether crime is going up or down in any given community or the nation as a whole.

Britain proves to be an ideal setting for many a medieval-minded crime novelist, regardless of century.

Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.