Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest mans.

it takes all sorts of people to make an underworld.

Collective crimes incriminate no one.

In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities, the killer and the mugger come out of the anonymous dark, their faces unrecognized, their motives obscure.

Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream. The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council, and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.