Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.
For reasons that have stunningly little to do with crime or crime rates, we, as a nation, have chosen to lock up more than two million people behind bars. Millions more are on probation or parole, or branded felons for life and thus locked into a permanent second-class status.
The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.
[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not work.
The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime?
We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.
Small crimes always precedes great ones.
Incarceration rates - especially black incarceration rates - have soared regardless of whether crime has been going up or down in any given community or the nation as a whole.
Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.
Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring.
Where there is no compassion, crime increases.
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.
I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.
The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.