Crime Classification Quotes

Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.

It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.

Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties.

Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.

Illegal is not a race, it is a crime.

I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don't think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year.

We need to look at the totality of the things that we're labeling as violent and really examine whether we need to have some more proportionality in terms of the punishment fitting the crime that's done. The bright line that we have right now, between violent and nonviolent, does not account for shades of gray.

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.

Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is.

There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.

A crime is a crime irrespective of the birth marks of the criminal.

I'm not convinced that stealing an iPhone is a felony or stealing a bike is a felony.

We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

There is no such thing as a hate crime.

We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they start out assuming it's terrorism and then work backwards and say it may or may not have been terrorism. And it does matter tremendously because of the resources involved. If it's a crime that's seen as a disturbed individual, then local police will handle it. If it's a crime that's seen as someone who might be linked to an international terrorist group, you get the vast federal U.S. national security bureaucracy as well as tremendous political attention.

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

We should not have people in prisons and jails who aren't a violent threat.