Quotes About Crime

I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!

There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.

We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

If you want to start reading Swedish crime fiction, you have to start with Sjowall and Wahloo.

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It's a crime not to help them.

'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst type of these punks is the big politician.

People are swept into the criminal justice system - particularly in poor communities of color - at very early ages... typically for fairly minor, nonviolent crimes.

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

You can't just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can't incite people to crime. There's all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.

Without a beat officer system, there can be no crime prevention or supportive investigation. This is the very foundation of sound policing. It is the beat officer who connects with the common man on a daily basis and is the five senses of his area.

I've a mate in the Middlesbrough mob," said Wield. "I'll give him a ring later when they've had time to get things sorted. As for the pistol, don't underestimate them. Close range, one of them gas guns can put a pellet through your eye right into your brain.

Of had ik maar zorgen, grote zorgen, of desnoods een vrouw om te bedriegen. Was ik maar een dief, moordenaar of flessentrekker. Angst en schuldgevoelens geven de liefde kraak en smaak. Kermend van angst en vreugde zou ik keer op keer de bodem van het genot bereiken.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

I always pack too much whenever I travel," a lady said quite loudly as the windows fogged. "We're moving from New York. My son has been mugged six times. He's just eleven. We can't keep buying him new watches." She went on like that.

It is most significant i think, that the word discrimination which for ages has been the very name of excellence, is now a bad thing, discrimination which used to be the supreme virtue, has now become the supreme crime, one should not discriminate, ofcourse i personaly think with all the past centuries of western culture that on should always discriminate.

Nothing is simpler than to kill a man; the difficulties arise in attempting to avoid the consequences.

That's one of the disadvantages of being poor, you don't dare kill anybody.

STUDY IN SCARLET (ILLUSTRATED COLLECTOR'S

He'll try again. With money to pay lawyers you can do a lot of dodging. That's one of the disadvantages of being poor, you don't dare kill anybody.

It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene. [ An Invitation to Learning , January 1942]

A body? Of a person? Dead?" "Bodies usually are. And this one was very dead indeed.