Quotes About Crime

psychological criminology may be succinctly defined as the scientific study of the behaviour and mental processes that contribute to an understanding of crime and criminals.

I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.

You have an interesting set of morals," he observed. "Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged.

Did you hotwire this car?" I then rephrased my question. "Did you STEAL this car?

Okay. Now you have to move your arms and legs." "I know how to make a snow angel." "Then do it! Otherwise, you're more like a chalk outline at a police crime scene.

Me, I always wanted frost power." "Frost power?" "Yeah." Seth gestured dramatically toward my coffee table. "If we're talking superhero abilities. If I had frost power, I could wave my hand, and suddenly that whole thing would be covered in ice." "Not frost?" "Same difference." "How would frost and/or ice power help you fight crime?" "Well, I don't know that it would. But it'd be cool.

Rose: "Did you hotwire this car? Did you steal this car?" Dimitri: "You have an interesting set of morals. Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged." - Rose Hathaway and Dimitri Belikov

Ah, min dotter", sa han. "Arton år och du har redan blivit anklagad för mord, hjälpt brottslingar och dödat fler än de flesta beskyddare kommer att göra under hela sitt liv.

The weirdest thing can squirrel an investigation Never speak ill of the dead, and never, ever, claim you've got a suspect until the court case is over and he's behind bars.

The bank account was opened by her. She uses Fowler's badge number as a way of getting back at him, just in case she's caught, which she was. I'm showing you the spin that can be put on this. As a witness she stinks, I'm telling you. Your call. You tell me what you want me to do." She met and held eyes with him. "I hate attorneys," Boldt told her. "Me too." She smiled. "All my friends are cops.

Oh, I guess you wouldn't know, since you left the actual investigating for me to do. Well, buckle up, my friend, because I'm about to hand you actual clues to an actual crime, wrapped in a bow.

I'VE BEEN ENCOUNTERING questions of race, of segregation—of America's great crime—all my professional life.

How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

Want to back out?" Jill let out a long breath. "No. I've always wanted a life of crime. Will you teach me gangster lingo? I want to be a credit to you.

Almost all crime depends on the acquiescence of the victim. If the victim refuses his assigned role, the criminal is placed at a disadvantage - one so severe, that it usually takes an understanding and compassionate judge to set things right. I had broken the rules. I had fought back.

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime: the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

Getting even was the basis of many primate semantic confusions, such asexpropriating the expropriators, an absolute crime demands an absolute penalty, they did it to me so I can do it to them, and, in general, the emotional mathematics of one plus one equals zero (1 + 1 = 0). The primates were so dumb they didn't realize that one plus one equals two (1 + 1 = 2) and one murder plus one murder equals two murders, one crime plus one crime equals two crimes, etc.

Wilson emphasizes that this model describes not only many, many infamous criminals, but quite a few of the more infamous statesmen and churchmen of history, who were not called criminals only because they were powerful enough to define what was crime in their society. Since these types have a strong power drive, most of history, as Wilson sees it, is Criminal History, the record of the crimes of one type of male.

We'll let the B and E slide," Quirk said. "But corpses keep showing up in your area, we might cite you for littering.

Belson came into the apartment with some crime-scene people and two homicide detectives. "This guy," Charlie said, and looked at his notebook, "Spenser. He was impersonating a police officer." Belson glanced at him. "We all thought that," Belson said, "when he was a cop.

Finally it was probably less the poverty that bred crime than the sour stench of racism that hung over anyplace where people are separated out by kind.

Spenser, he said. Thank God you called. I've got this murder took place in a locked room. It's got us all stumped and the chief said, Quirk, he said, only one man can solve this.

went to see Quirk in his new high-tech office in the new high-tech police headquarters. "Wow," I said. "You must be catching a lot more crooks now." "We got so many," Quirk said, "they're asking us to slow down a little.