Quotes About Crime

The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes.

right; maybe once you stripped away the rationalizations, it always came down to a simple matter of escape. An escape from poverty or boredom or crime or the shackles of your skin.

It is possible to establish zero tolerance for murder as a solution to anything

The sun is all you wait for, the light, guardian saint of all the children who lie like death on the wake of the household crime. You stop your heart like a clock: these hours are not your own. You hide your life away, the lucky coin tucked quickly in the shoe from the burglar, when he Comes. Because he will, as sure as shoes.

Criminal Investigation Department of the Metropolitan Police. They'll solve it." Reggie chuckled when he realized Sebastian was puzzled, if only momentarily. "That's the real name for Scotland Yard, which is actually the name of the street and the building where they are housed.

A Fed, a local, and a consultant.

It was quite a shock for me to discover that crime was so easy that it was boring. I reluctantly turned to scholarship.

Useful thing a warrant. Murder and theft change their names if you have one.

In the 1500s, it was a crime to be caught kissing in Naples, Italy. The punishment? Death!

Murder is blue

It's from Balzac. 'Behind every great fortune there is a crime.' That was the theme I saw, even though the fortune ran through his fingers long before he was shot down in Cicero.

gunfight with a Yardie posse.' He

Sheriff, are you suggestin' the victom was kidnapped? I'm only statin' that, at this time, we have no body, only nonvital body parts...

Kill her! Do it now! Gut her remains and sink the evidence, then fly home in a week

Crime is one of the many methods justice may select.

The reach of federal criminal statutes was troubling to Joselyn. They had become so broad that they virtually mimicked every state crime. The protection of double jeopardy had become a joke. If a defendant was acquitted at the state level, but the crime violated notions of political rectitude, the defendant would be tried again at the federal level. This was now done routinely in high-profile cases where political points could be made by a president or his attorney general. While

should interest you," says Thorpe. "The man who was killed in Vegas fought off his assailant at least long enough to give us a clue. Under his fingernails we took some scrapings, found tissue, and did a DNA profile. We were unable to match it to any known individual

The evidence linking increased punishment with lower crime rates is very strong.

Norma McCorvey ejerció en la criminalidad un impacto mucho mayor que la suma del control de armas, una economía fuerte y unas estrategias policiales innovadoras.

But guns are not the whole story. In Switzerland, every adult male is issued an assault rifle for militia duty and is allowed to keep the gun at home. On a per capita basis, Switzerland has more firearms than just about any other country, and yet it is one of the safest places in the world. In other words, guns do not cause crime.

Un estudio descubrió que más del 25% de los homicidios cometidos en la ciudad de Nueva York en 1988 estaban relacionados con el crack.

los estados con los índices de aborto más altos en la década de los setenta experimentaron los mayores descensos del crimen en los noventa, mientras que los estados con bajos índices de abortos experimentaron descensos más leves.

Desde 1985, los estados con altos índices de aborto han experimentado una caída de aproximadamente el 30% en el crimen respecto a los estados con bajo índice de abortos.

Los sesenta y setenta fueron, en retrospectiva, una época fabulosa para ser delincuente callejero en la mayor parte de las ciudades norteamericanas. Las probabilidades de recibir un castigo eran tan bajas —fue la época de auge de un sistema judicial liberal y el movimiento a favor de los derechos del delincuente— que cometer un delito sencillamente no resultaba difícil.