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Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it. -
Jean Genet
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. -
Jean Genet
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The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the ''outlaw,'' the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order. -
Michel Foucault
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Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it. -
Barry J Farber
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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization. -
Havelock Ellis
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Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological -- resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul. -
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not. -
John Kenneth Galbraith
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