Crime Causation Quotes

The time for the State to protect himself against the criminal is before the criminal is made. Most criminals are not born, they are made.... What a State really punishes in a criminal is its own neglect, it's own failure to do its duty to the citizens.

If you allow young folk to be abominably brought up and their characters corrupted little by little, from childhood; and if then you punish them as grown-ups for committing the crimes to which their training has consistently inclined them, what else is this, I ask, but first making thieves and then punishing them for it?

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

atrophy of feeling creates criminals.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

The jails are full of kids from kids' homes. You're 16 years old, and you're out on the street. How you going to fend for yourself at 16 if you've not had an education? You're going to turn to crime.

If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.

If we were going to look at how pharmalogical drugs influence crime, we should probably look at alcohol.

Court rules do not cause crime.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

The number one cause of crime is criminals.

We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.

Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!

Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.

The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions

Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

Someone who is not a killer is not going to watch a TV show and decide to be a killer.