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I was very influenced by films and books like 'Serpico,' 'The French Connection,' and 'Prince of the City.' They were some of the reasons I became a crime writer.

~Don Winslow

Topics: Became Books City Connection Crime Films French Influenced Like Prince Reasons Some Very Were Writer

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I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

~Donna Leon

Topics: Crime Demands Enormous Intellect Know Like Make Most Own Soup Spit Think Tv Writing You Your I Think

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So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

~Donna Leon

Topics: Against Contemporary Crime Crime Fiction Fiction Much Obsessed Painful Particularly Read Violence Women

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Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the two great questions: how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Been Citizenship Crime Criminal Diminish Encouraged Great Hand How Hundred Hundred Years Last Order Other Perplexed Questions Reduce Reform Respecting Restore Shall Society Two Useful Years

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Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Being Better Character Crime Degraded Except Fear Harsh He His Influence Made Man Measures Never Principle Radically Restrained Seldom Then

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Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Attendant Create Crime Degrading Dependence Errors Habits Indolence Many Miseries Opens Petty Train Vice

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Our officers are on the front lines - the first to show up on the scene of a crime. They should be respected; not ridiculed. They and their families protected; not put at risk.

~Doug Ducey

Topics: Crime Families First Front Front Lines Lines Officers Our Protected Put Respected Ridiculed Risk Scene Should Show Up

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I don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn't becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people 'over the Internet.'

~Douglas Adams

Topics: Anybody Argue Becoming Crime Factor Feel However Instance Internet Lives Major Mention New Now Our Our Lives Over People Planned Rather Special Still Think Us Very Worrying Worth Would

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Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Crime Else Lazy Nothing Turned Tv Writers

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Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

~Drew Carey

Topics: America Crime Gang Led Liquor Now Organized Problems Prohibition Rise

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