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Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.

Crime is a product of social excess.

In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before.

Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes sick and in many cases dies. Along the way, the host infects others.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.