There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

She had signed her own death-warrant. He kept telling himself over and over that he was not to blame, she had brought it on herself. He had never seen the man. He knew there was...

(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

Let them Teach,Let them learn,let them pray,for the world is theirs.

Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lot of times they don’t understand what’s happening. They see something they don’t like and...

Redemption is for the weak. The strong keep sinning

Shocking, sad, revealing, and deeply researched, this true account of the life and crimes of serial killer Aileen Wuornos will fascinate true-crime fans.

Marla poked Duncan. He stepped forward. “Maybe I can help.”Atomic Jack looked at him., his eyes glowed a sickening shade of radioactive orange. “I really don’t see how.” He slipped off his glove and his...

When no power is vested in a turbulent man, he behaves sorrowfully like a nearly killed christmas goat, but when fully endorsed, without considering his level of insanity and evil gestures, he cuts everyone in...

Mata um homem por dinheiro e és criminoso. Mata mil homens por uma ideia e és um grande génio.

I rushed to the bathroom for every corner of the hospital was suffocating. I got hold of acid-bottle, which was meant for toilet cleaning. As I took it into my hands, I realized I had...

A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned — in the very same prison — by the employment contract that he has signed.

But I’m completely innocent in this case. I’m the victim. Don’t you understand? If she’d just dressed in an appropriate manner, nothing would have happened. I’m a peaceful man, and now I’m going to prison.”Conversation...

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.

But nothing in my previous work had prepared me for the experience of reinvestigating Cleveland. It is worth — given the passage of time — recalling the basic architecture of the Crisis: 121 children from...

When I got home I mixed a stiff one and stood by the open window in the living room and sipped it and listened to the groundswell of traffic on Laurel Canyon Boulevard and looked...

Maupassant is a man of mitigating circumstances, the lawyer who can bring the jurors around by demonstrating that they too could have committed such a crime. We are all murderers.

He had hoped to spot the flickering shadow of a murderer as he turned the file’s pages, but instead it was the ghost of Lula herself who emerged, gazing up at him, as victims of...

The themes that exercised the minds of survivor movements and their allies within the health and welfare professions generated a political project: how to revolutionise medical and judicial approaches to injured adults and children, how...

In all the interviews I have done, I cannot remember one offender who did not admit privately to more victims than those for whom he had been caught. On the contrary, most offenders had been...

I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid I’ll never get a chance to live!

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

They do horrible, unchildish things because they they have had very horrible, unchildish lives.

A risk to own anything: a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around, not enough cars, shoes, cigarettes. Too many people, too few things. What there is must...

If the future generation has a difficult life, if they engage in war or commit crime it’s not their fault, it’s our fault because we fail to educate them. So responsibility resides on me, on...

False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all.

People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But nothing’s changed. We still hate what we don’t understand.

Speculation is a dangerous thing without any evidence to back it up.

The elements are a way to define what abstract is; and abstract is a taught as like any other than ,what to think? and how to think? and you may begin..

Our society needs criminals like Wolfgang Priklopil in order to give a face to the evil that lives within and to split it off from … It needs the images of cellar dungeons so as...

In many ways the effect of the crash on embezzlement was more significant than on suicide. To the economist embezzlement is the most interesting of crimes. Alone among the various forms of larceny it has...

I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine

No one can escape slavery; we are all slaves in some regards. We are slaves to our parent’s expectations. We are slaves to the pressures of our peers. We are slaves to our own ideologies...

You don’t like what you see out your window, you put up a wall.

Listen to me you piece of shit, if you ever give the press information about me, my parents or even breathe a word about me to anyone ever again, I swear to god I will...

Threats from the street may be potentially lethal, but the threat from the “enemy within” is a far worse hazard to a law officers health and wellbeing.

There was a brown substance inside and Chase had no doubt: it was heroin. Only a tiny amount, but very pure.” – Cutting Right to the Chase Vol.2

one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.

We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the...

This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

He’s bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated.In this he was echoing the Patrician’s view of crime and punishment. If there was crime, there should be punishment. If the specific criminal should be involved in...

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

Like a submarine ejecting ballast, he bobbed to the surface as another sense pulled his eyelids all the way open like roller blinds in the old cartoons.

In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.

Genetics, accidents of birth or events in early childhood have left criminals’ brains and bodies with measurable flaws predisposing them to committing assault, murder and other antisocial acts. …. Many offenders also have impairments in...

If everything comes in your way just the way you wanted them to ,then you’re probably in the wrong lane.