There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being read more

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Crime is a product of social excess.

Crime is a product of social excess.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our
inclination.
[Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris
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Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our
inclination.
[Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris
Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become read more

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.