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- Nov 07, 2020
Crime Quotes
Crime, fear, and what a society owes the victim.
This crime quotes collection includes a stark line about crime and its fear shaping American life, and a pointed connection drawn between illiteracy and resorting to crime. See Criminal Justice quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1920s prohibition in the US notoriously failed to tackle alcohol use, led to lethal forms of liquor entering the black market, fuelled organised crime and its associated violence, and wasted public money.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here in Britain, black people are disproportionately targeted, arrested and imprisoned for drug offences, while organised and violent crime are granted a massive source of revenue.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have judicial system in Sudan. Anyone who committed a war crime, anti-human crime, or any other crime will be locked up.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pitched the idea to FX that there's this larger 'Fargo' universe where there's true crime in the upper Midwest, and I can tell stories from any era of that. Maybe they connect to the first season or the movie, or maybe they don't. It's just a style of storytelling. We're under the auspices of being a true story that isn't true.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Unforgotten' was a bit of a no-brainer. I'm a big fan of crime dramas, but often the 'investigation' part goes much too smoothly - and you don't get that with this.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm most interested in people who've lived life in the extreme, which is what draws me to crime fiction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to write about realistic people doing realistic things. Or as close as I can get, given that I'm trying to write a suspenseful crime novel.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first song is called 'London.' It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vast majority of the online crime cases, we don't even know which continent the attacks are coming from. And even if we are able to find online criminals, quite often there is no outcome. The local police don't act, or if they do, there's not enough evidence, or for some reason we can't take them down.
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- Nov 07, 2020