Crime Impact Quotes

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

A street criminal can steal only what he can carry, but with a stroke of a pen, the dialing of a telephone or the pushing of a computer key, the white collar criminal can and does steal billions.

One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Crime is a tax on the poor

A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.

Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cynicism among adults. It contributes to the confusion of the young and to the increase of juvenile delinquency.

On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take the issue too seriously, they'll look at you like you're crazy. So that's a really tough issue, whether we're doing more harm than good by paying so much attention to a few cases that honestly don't normally intersect with our lives.

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

One thing I take great pride in is that my case was the one that started the decline of the Mafia.

Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.

Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.

Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.

Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.

Offenders who commit crime in prison have a disruptive and often devastating impact on the prospects of those who are trying to turn their lives around and who see prison as a pivotal turning point in their lives.

For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

I see beauty in the future of the Internet, but I'm worried that we might not see that. I'm worried that we are running into problems because of online crime. Online crime is the one thing that might take these things away from us.

When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.

If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

We must try to understand the true weight of law enforcement officers' burdens.

Broadchurch' has always been about the impact of crime, on all those affected.

There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.