"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order."

Crime, Order, Trying, Writing

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"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order."

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"There is no getting away from the fact, he is one of only a few screws in the system who are the real McCoy. Anyone reading this book who has spent time in Scottish prisons will no doubt agree, this chimp is up for it just as much as the prisoners. I personally would love to see more screws like him, as he doesn't bother with all this shitty report piss. If you want to fight him, he comes into your cell, one-on-one, man-to-man."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Crime, Police, Fight, Respect, Prison

"The riot screws didn't give a monkey's about the state he was in, no sir. They dragged him by his hair in to the first cell that was opened, where he was stripped and beaten."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Crime, Beating, Torture, Prison, Violence

"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

"A killer is someone who killed another without their country's permission."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Crime, Truth, Power, Justice, Morality

"Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder."

John Green, American Author

Crime, Goal, Focus, Violence

"The riot screws did not stop there, they dragged him down the corridor where ten other nameless screws repeatedly coshed him over the head and face and body. Dingus by now was totally out cold, he had received the equivalent injuries of someone who was involved in a car crash."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Crime, Assault, Injury, Violence, Prison

"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

"Just as chillingly as Manuel took police to the spot where he had buried 17-year-old Isabella Cooke, it was reminiscent of this when Brady took police to Saddleworth Moor in Yorkshire, when he and Hindley were flown there by helicopter to walk on the graves of more victims."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Crime, Murder, Police, Burial, Victims

"A paedophile is someone whose sexual attraction towards children their own age did not grow with them."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Crime, Morality, Sexuality, Society

"Perhaps you think I'm losing the thread of my thought? Not a bit of it! I'm still telling you the story of how I murdered my wife, They asked me in court how I killed her, what I used to do it with. Imbeciles! They thought I killed her that day, the fifth of October, with a knife. It wasn't that day I killed her, it was much earlier. Exactly in the same way as they're killing their wives now, all of them..."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Crime, Murder, Justice, Court, Violence

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