Quotes About Crime

Eisner, together with the historian Randolph Roth, notes that crime often shoots up in decades in which people question their society and government, including the American Civil War, the 1960s, and post-Soviet Russia.

The ignorance is measurable. Pollsters repeatedly find that while people tend to be too optimistic about their own lives, they are too pessimistic about their societies. For instance, in most years between 1992 and 2015, an era that criminologists call the Great American Crime Decline, a majority of Americans believed that crime was rising.

Unlike the more gimmicky theories of the crime decline, massive imprisonment is almost certain to lower crime rates because the mechanism by which it operates has so few moving parts.

But proving that incarceration deters people (as opposed to incapacitating them) is easier said than done, because the statistics at any time are inherently stacked against it.

Also, since people tend to get less violent as they get older, keeping men in prison beyond a certain point does little to reduce crime.

Half of the world's homicides are committed in just twenty-three countries containing about a tenth of humanity, and

Historical data are scarce, not least because suicide, also called "self-murder," used to be a crime in many countries, including England until 1961.

When they held constant all the factors that typically push men into marriage, they found that actually getting married made a man less likely to commit crimes immediately thereafter.107 The causal pathway has been pithily explained by Johnny Cash: Because you're mine, I walk the line.

As long as bad things have not vanished from the face of the earth, there will always be enough incidents to fill the news, especially when billions of smartphones turn most of the world's population into crime reporters and war correspondents.

When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator." Stephanie Plum

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!

I love Chicago. I know Chicago. And Chicago is a great city. It can be a great city. It can't be a great city if people are shot walking down the street for a loaf of bread.

In Chicago, we love our crooks!

read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment,

The idea that you can target an ethnic group with a collective crime, regardless of the specific innocence or guilt of the constituent elements of that group — there is absolutely nothing that's more racist than that.

The news was its usual discouraging self—people in Chicago can't help but shoot at each other, and we only hear about the ones who didn't miss.

Most of my Spanish vocabulary consists of phrases like I didn't know that car was stolen, or I was home watching TV during the shooting, or That's not blood, it's molé sauce.

couldn't imagine a worse crime scene than a snow-covered alleyway after dark. I'm sure one existed somewhere. I just couldn't imagine it.

Narración despiadada a la hora de mostrar los entresijos del poder, las raíces más hondas de la corrupción y su alcance, así como los embotados mecanismos de la justicia, Una novela criminal es también una valiente denuncia del coste social de las políticas que declaran la guerra al crimen sin poner freno a sus causas.

poseer narcóticos con fines de venta, llevar a cabo delitos para los cuales se organizaron, entre otros, contra la salud en su modalidad de posesión de estupefacientes con fines de comercialización, lo que constituye dato inequívoco, que demuestra la conducta típica consistente en organizarse.» Traduzco: no es necesario cometer un delito para ser un delincuente.

One can take pride in going as far in crime as a saint in virtue.