We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, you are making it more likely that they will go on to commit more serious crimes. That is why we have so much disorder in London. It is a disgrace.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
We've prosecuted police, dozens of them over the years.