Quotes about crime and criminals.

Sourced

"Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behaviour that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business." --Robert Rice, The business of crime

"With homosexuality added, it would be sparkling, unassimilable." --Jean Genet, The Thief's Journal, in reference to the French Gestapo.

"A society should not be judged on how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals..." --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Attributed

"A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who hasn't sufficient capital to form a company." --Howard Scott

"A society gets all the criminals it deserves." --Emma Goldman

• There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? -- Dick Cavett, mocking the TV-violence debate