Quotes About Crime

'The Turnaround' isn't even really a crime novel. But you need conflict to make a novel, any kind of novel, and I don't know any other way to do it than crime.

I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well.

High testosterone levels have been proven to make men more likely to commit crimes. The tendency in men toward risky behaviour keeps turning up even where socialization is different, and so does crime and delinquency.

When 'The Godfather' comes on, any time of the day or night, I'm lost because I'm incapable of turning it off.

Offenders who commit crime in prison have a disruptive and often devastating impact on the prospects of those who are trying to turn their lives around and who see prison as a pivotal turning point in their lives.

Most cop movies and TV shows are fantasies.

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.

During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half of them had been mugged one time. Quite a number of them, maybe 30 40, 50, had been mugged twice.

That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death.

If you're going to steal a car, don't steal a mail vehicle. They don't mess around. I mean, have fun, steal all the cars you want, but don't steal a U.S. Mail vehicle.

Local people do want to see more police on the streets.

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

Property crime is down 40 percent. We just don't want to see it creep back up. We've had 25 years of very good cooperation.

We had punks literally protesting Fugazi. I respect a boycott. I respect a conscionable boycott, but of all bands to boycott? Fight crime. If you really want to get out there, go fight crime.

When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that.

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.

Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.

You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.