Quotes About Crime

The murders were more deed-focused than process-focused. The actual murder of the victim and setting him alight was much more important to the killer than meticulous planning or an attempt to conceal the bodies.

Serial killers do not take responsibility for killing; they are of the opinion that it is the police's responsibility to prevent them from killing.

When a killer tries to change something on a crime scene deliberately to throw the detectives off track, it is called staging. This killer was so good at staging that he should have been awarded an Oscar for his performance.

South Africa has the second highest rate of serial homicides, the United States of America having the highest. Unconfirmed reports indicate that there have been fifteen serial killers active in Russia in the past five years.

South Africa has the third highest murder rate in the world, with Colombia and Swaziland ahead of it. The high rate of murder illustrates the amount of work that a Murder and Robbery detective has to cope with, and yet South Africa holds the record for apprehending serial killers within three to six months of a special investigation team being established, provided the serial killer stays active.

Elmarie and I were swamped. At that stage we were handling fifteen active serial killers between us, of whom seven were in my head.

But the very next day, a new serial killer filled the place that this one had vacated.

In co-operation with Dr Mark Wellman of the MTN Centre for Crime Prevention Studies at Rhodes University, we will have established a data bank on serial killers by the end of 2000. This data bank is a sought after commodity by the rest of the world, since South Africa has the second highest number of serial killers. The United States of America has the highest and unconfirmed reports indicate that there have been about fifteen serial killers in Russia in the past five years.

A killer who operates in the dark of night and takes precautions to hide his identity has a low risk, while one who blatantly commits the murder without regard for being identified takes a greater risk. Serial killers' arrogance sometimes causes them to take greater risks.

serial killers act out their fantasies. They have no conscience to inhibit them.

When we reached the office I started writing urgently. For the first time since I had been compiling profiles I also wrote in the first person singular. I described his general modus operandi as if he was telling it himself. Then I tackled each crime scene separately and, still writing in the first person singular, I described the subtle changes that crept in, how his fantasy developed, the mistakes he made, how he tried to correct them and how he improved.

El crimen es precioso porque garantiza al gobierno la adhesión del ciudadano. ¿La patria? ¡Sálvese, general, yo sé lo que le digo; qué patria ni qué india envuelta! ¿Las leyes? ¡Buenas son tortas! ¡Sálvese, general, porque le espera la muerte!».

As long as a significant segment of society has few opportunities to encounter meaningful challenges, and few chances to develop the skills necessary to benefit from them, we must expect that violence and crime will attract those who cannot find their way to more complex autotelic experiences.

Much of what we label juvenile delinquency—car theft, vandalism, rowdy behavior in general—is motivated by the same need to have flow experiences not available in ordinary life. As long as a significant segment of society has few opportunities to encounter meaningful challenges, and few chances to develop the skills necessary to benefit from them, we must expect that violence and crime will attract those who cannot find their way to more complex autotelic experiences.

One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.

In order to keep his daughter from going to jail for insider trading, Mahoney had been forced to meet with Castiglia and, for whatever reason, the two men actually liked each other. Maybe that was because there wasn't that much difference between gangsters and politicians; they just belonged to different gangs.

It's one thing to be poor. It's another thing to be poor and feel unsafe. One could say crime is the insult to the injury. But, it's really the extra injury to the injury.

Cry Wolf' is a hard-boiled thriller written at break-neck pace of political corruption and organised, very violent crime.

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

She was thankful that in her job, she didn't have to choose sides—she fought against currency counterfeiters, stock and bond forgers, money launderers, diamond smugglers—in short, lowlifes like Spyro Leandrou who engaged in activities that were universally perceived as wrong.

It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

I think it's a federal crime parking meters won't accept pennies. Yeah, government, we know pennies suck. But you made them! You have to accept them!

THEY KIDNAP AND MURDER MY HUSBAND ON OUR HONEYMOON My new husband and I are vacationing in Buenos Aires.

This peasant said; He who should rule by law commands theft, Who then will punish crime? The straightener of another's crookedness Supports another's crime.