Natsuo Kirino Quotes

The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the poor, the ignorant and the underprivileged members of society.

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

Court rules do not cause crime.

Criminals are not the victims of society; society is the victim of criminals.

The most malign of all these dangers today is disregard and disobedience of law. Crime is increasing. Confidence in rigid and speedy justice is decreasing.

Criminals don't care what the law is.

Simply put, violent criminals break the law - any law - every day with impunity.

The best crime stories are always about the crime and its consequences - you know, 'Crime And Punishment' is the classic. Where you have the crime, and its consequences are the story, but considering the crime and the consequences makes you think about the society in which the crime takes place, if you see what I mean.

If I was a bad guy, I probably would be incarcerated.

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?

Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.

I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

Crime is sexy.

It is only losers that are prosecuted.