"He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it."

Crime, Statesman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"Dr Danson made a series of claims about violent assaults on three prisoners by staff at Barlinnie. Three prison officers subsequently appeared in court charged with assaulting inmates."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Crime, Assault, Court, Prison, Justice

"Once again, off this skinny prick of a copper went. BANG! SLAP! PUNCH! It was more like a Batman movie! He could hit me all night, but it wouldn't make any difference."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"Ever see moors murderer Ian Brady, study his photos, study Black, study Cannon, study Sutcliffe - study them all! Who says evil is not recognisable?"

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"On general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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"The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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"It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

Crime, Mystery, Logic, Investigation

"The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is of course as it should be."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

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"Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!"

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Crime, Mystery, Suspense, Observation

"How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

Crime, Murder, Police, Justice, Guilt

"We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"Dr Danson made a series of claims about violent assaults on three prisoners by staff at Barlinnie. Three prison officers subsequently appeared in court charged with assaulting inmates."

"Once again, off this skinny prick of a copper went. BANG! SLAP! PUNCH! It was more like a Batman movie! He could hit me all night, but it wouldn't make any difference."

"Ever see moors murderer Ian Brady, study his photos, study Black, study Cannon, study Sutcliffe - study them all! Who says evil is not recognisable?"

"On general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes."

"The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless."

"The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is of course as it should be."

"Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!"

"How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons."

"We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others."

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"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief."

"The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty."

"A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it."

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"Whom they have injured they also hate."

"Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men."

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