Many low-income people in the U.S.A. charged with a crime opt to plead guilty to a lesser offence because they cannot afford to go to trial.
Guy Standing
PeopleGuiltyGoCrimeBecauseMany
It's not crime that makes us more punitive in the United States. It's the way we respond to crime and how we view those people who have been labeled criminals.
Michelle Alexander
PeopleViewCrimeWayMoreRespond
You think of a criminal, and you already judge them for the crime, and you don't really see the human side of them. We all have our sides that we're not proud about.
Adrienne C. Moore
ProudThinkJudgeYouCrimeSee
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
Henry Miller
CrimeOverPrisonerWhoHisLives
Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.
Michael Koryta
MeYouLookCrimeHorrorFresh
I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.
Edward Blake
FearBeginningBorderCrimeCarnival
People have started to see that 'smart on crime' rather than 'tough on crime' makes sense.
Greg Boyle
SmartPeopleToughCrimeSeeSense
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
CrimeWhoHePreventDoes
Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.
Yuval Noah Harari
HistoryAnimalsCrimeWorstVictims
I'm proudly a crime writer, but it would be really inaccurate to call me a mystery writer.
George Pelecanos
MeMysteryCrimeCallWouldWriter
I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.
Lisa Gardner
LawyersUniquePhoneKnowCrimeOut
Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo
LongCrimeDespotism
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Friedrich Engels
CrimeMoreLawsCriminalEvenSome
Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It is like a crime that has not been solved. There is an answer, even if police do not know it.
Jostein Gaarder
GoodPoliceWorldKnowCrimeAnswer
Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.
Sam Sheppard
FamilyMotherTruthKnowNowCrime
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.
Emmeline Pankhurst
MenSaidCrimeMatterPunishment
The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give it any greater legitimacy.
Jonathan Kozol
PastCrimeMoreSeemMayGive
All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
Rand Paul
BetterCrimeLevelIssuesState
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
Elizabeth Fry
RevengeCrimePunishmentCriminal
After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.
Diane Mott Davidson
NobodyCrimeTalkCateringSheriff
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
Ramsey Clark
WarWorldCrimeWorld War IIPolicy
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
David Mitchell
TimeParentsYouDownPlaceCrime
I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to jog five miles.
Denis Leary
MeCrimeWayMilesGetCommit
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.
Natsuo Kirino
PeopleRealityCrimeExploreSee
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