Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their resale. Deteriorating or vacant properties can, in turn, directly affect the quality of life in a neighborhood, for example, by leading to increases in vandalism or crime.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.
I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.
White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.
In what was called the second siege of Leningrad, thousands died, but Putin and his partners in crime got rich. Then Putin killed even more Russians when he had the FSB explode bombs in apartment buildings in Moscow in 1999 to give himself the pretext to seize dictatorial powers.
In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the two great questions: how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?
The final Brexit deal must ensure there is no diminution in Britain's national security or ability to tackle cross-border crime.
I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.
Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.
The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.
I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.
Retailers have an important part to play in preventing knife crime - enforcing age restrictions and displaying knives safely is crucial.
The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
Foreign policy is inseparable from domestic policy now. Is terrorism foreign policy or domestic policy? It's both. It's the same with crime, with the economy, climate change.
Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.
You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.
Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.
