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For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

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

Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.

We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.