"There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty."

Crime, Poverty, Scandal

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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

Crime, Violence, Police, Resilience, Pain

"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

Crime, Evil, Recognition, Criminals, Study

"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

Crime, Loneliness, Presence, Absence

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

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

Crime,

"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

Crime, Culture, Irony, Fiction

"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

Crime, Disgrace

"They camped that night on the foreplain at the foot of a talus slope and the murder that had been reckoned upon took place."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Crime, Murder, Darkness, Violence

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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."

"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."

"They camped that night on the foreplain at the foot of a talus slope and the murder that had been reckoned upon took place."

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"There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty."

"I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale."

"We love the precepts for the teacher's sake."

"Necessity, the mother of invention."

"We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it."

"Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake."