Quotes About Crime

Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.

You can't beat a cop drama. That's what everybody seems to want to watch.

I love crime procedurals. I always have. I love cop shows.

I'll probably stay in Copenhagen... I can keep writing songs about my local community and about crime.

A cop by themselves on every corner is not going to make that much difference.

Every day, lax sentencing costs lives.

'Scott and Bailey' was very much forensically interested in the ins and outs of the way they went about cracking a case from the point of something happening to how they managed to arrest someone.

In the actual story I got with the Bonannos, but I had dealings with other crime families and other criminals, using the Bonannos as my credibility.

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

I had done 12 little romance books, and I decided I wanted to move into crime fiction.

It wasn't a decision to become a writer. I wanted to become a writer of crime fiction. I was very specific.

I think there's a concept that crime fiction is or was male-dominated, but it really never has been.

I love crime fiction, and I'm proud to be part of it, but I'm not without criticism for my own genre.

It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.

We loved 'The Crown.' And 'The Killing' and 'The Fall' with Gillian Anderson. All those crime shows are always super fun.

Catching a culprit becomes really easy when there are video footages from the crime scene.

Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.

A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered.

While we have come a long way, we must go further if we are to ensure greater diversity and truly modern police forces that reflect the communities they serve and provide police officers able to tackle not only traditional crime but also the changing face of crime.