Quotes About Crime

17. Un hombre buscado (A Wanted Man)

19. Personal (VIII Premio RBA de Novela Policiaca, 2014)

Are we going different places?" "Of course we are," she said. "You're looking at the crime scene and I'm going to the DGSE." I nodded. The Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure. The French version of the CIA.

No se le va a escapar. Está muerto. Además, tampoco han encontrado ningún médico forense sobrio de momento.

In an advanced, civilized country, a handful of men were able to gain for their criminal schemes the enthusiastic backing of millions of decent, educated, law-abiding citizens. What is the factor that made this possible?

If life on death row is safer than life on the streets, it's hard to believe that the fear of execution is a driving force in a criminal's calculus.

Somebody killed something: that's clear, at any rate

The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one," Dr. Poblocki said. "When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder. A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes, Evie said excitedly. It won't be a minute.

Next time we see you, you'll be on trial for some ingenious crime!" Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. "Just as long as they know my name.

When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

Bloody clothing is often a clue that something has gone awry.

Los asesinatos eran una razón más para pasar la noche bebiendo y bailando. Eran muy buenos para los negocios.

Murder was just another reason to drink

because there may be a few coincidences in life, but none in crime. Everything has a motive.

The catalyst begins a story's action. Something happens—a crime occurs, a letter arrives, Aunt Mary appears on the doorstep—and from that moment on the story is defined. Until the catalyst kicks off the story, the only information the audience has is where and when the film takes place. But once an event happens, the story suddenly has focus and direction.

He was floating with his head down, blood streaming from a bullet hole in the back of his neck.

Warn a kid with oppositional defiant disorder not to do something, and you've pretty much guaranteed the crime.

We're about to be overrun by an entire generation of juvenile psychopaths.

Already on it," he assured her. Pedophiles loved to hide digital files—say, incriminating photos—as attachments to computer games, where the file sizes were already so huge and graphic-rich that it was hard to see the piggyback. Inside stereo speakers was also a favorite spot for stashing thumb drives. In this house, given this crime scene, they couldn't afford to assume anything.

Criminal enterprises are notoriously snobbish, and our local gangs aren't sophisticated enough for Russian interest.

Tattoos tell stories of crime and passion, punishment and regret. They express an outlaw, antiauthoritarian point of view and communicate a romantic solidarity among society's outcasts.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.