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.
We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.
Rather than trying to find evidence of a crime, the FBI’s counterintelligence goal is to identify, monitor and neutralize foreign intelligence activity in the United States.
They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.
I guess, somewhere along the line, when we first came out, somebody thought it was a crime to be young and not wear a cowboy hat and sing country music.
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
Crime is a product of social excess.
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
Poverty is the mother of crime.
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
I wrote 'Knots and Crosses,' the first of the Rebus books, not even realising that I was writing crime fiction.
I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll read anything anyone gives me.
Anyone who says, 'Books don't change anything,' or - more commonly - that crime fiction is the wrong genre for promoting social change - should take a closer look.