Quotes About Crime

Certain crimes cannot be prevented unless there is a daily collective work done diligently.

I do a lot of lecturing, at colleges and police schools, and I always get the same questions: 'Do they really kill you? What do they do with the money? How do you become a wiseguy?'

I don't understand why brothers can't understand the fact, or even just accept the fact, you can still be a man without having to commit crimes.

I'm interested in people who are very close to the people who commit crimes.

If somebody is here illegally, and they commit a crime, chances are they're going to commit another one. So let's get rid of them.

I think that far too often we let those who commit crimes in our society off far too lightly.

For me, earnestness is the greatest crime an Englishman can commit.

The crimes in my books are committed by people who can't keep it together any more. They do something to express their own pain, and that has a terrible effect on somebody else.

The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.

The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we're going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there's so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.

Lowered crime is a precondition to economic revival, not its consequence.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.

If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado.

I like books like 'The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher,' where the investigation of a crime becomes a way into an exploration of the society where the crime took place.

It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible.

It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.