For violence and hurt tangle every man in their toils, and for the most part fall on the head of him from whom they had their rise; nor is it easy for one by who his act breaks the common pact of peace to lead a a calm and quiet life.
~Lucretius.
On the Nature of Things

Through this great gallery of murder together let us wander hand in hand, in delighted admiration, while I endeavor to point your attention to the objects of profitable criticism.
~Thomas DeQuincy

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a state's failure; all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
~H.G. Wells

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
~Robert F. Kennedy

Wherever he steps, whatever he touches, whatever he leaves, even unconsciously, will serve as a silent witness against him.
~Edmond Locard

The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with.
~Raymond Chandler.

From the November 30, 2006 edition of Rolling Stone magazine:
"The Malefactor's Register here is a riveting site documenting notorious crimes from the past two centuries."

Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
~Georges Bataille