| 单词 | crime |
| 例句 | If you haven’t been charged with a crime, are you willing to risk the possibility that fighting the forfeiture might prompt the government to file criminal charges against you? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The bigger the crime they claim, the more cred they got in the system. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Reggie’s ability to start a new mission, would be “a function of the type of crime, so I believe that if he is convicted of a lesser offense that would be helpful.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Don’t report crimes; tell them we have no crimes and no poverty. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your Worship, I submit that I am guilty' of no crime.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All of the possible reasons for why New York’s crime rate dropped are changes that happened at the margin; they were incremental changes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Businesses were relocating to New Jersey because of high taxes and crime. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Dell slammed his door shut and took off in a run away from the scratched-metal crime scene. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The guard must have thought he had a major crime on his hands. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The most horrible charges were crimes against humanity. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “New crimes will entail new punishments,” Grandma warned. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z When a person accepts the pardon, it indicates he or she is promising not to repeat the crime. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He apparently believes in the cure, rather than the punishment of crime. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z They’re separated and interrogated, and each is given the choice of confessing to the major crime and implicating his partner or remaining silent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With a secret, smug smile, I remove the rope from the scene of the crime and clean up the dirt, patting it carefully around the plant. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It may be surprising to some that drug crime was declining, not rising, when a drug war was declared. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I accept the first charge but the hate crime is wrong. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But an even bigger flaw in the strong- economy theory concerns violent crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It issued from a place deeper than her own buried crime. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I ran down a list of recent crimes, looking for a conviction that might stick. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The neighborhood was plagued with crime, and sometimes the police would come in their cruisers, sirens blasting. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “To my regret, I have overlooked his crimes. But I willabet his evil no more. I will not be accountable for your destruction, Ophelia. Perhaps that will atone...” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Because the minibus business was completely unregulated, it was basically organized crime. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z On February 21a grand jury had indicted—formally accused of a crime—100 blacks for violating an obscure 1921 law banning boycotts “without just or legal cause.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Grown-ups act like waking someone up at night is a terrible crime. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z My grandpa had been in and out of jail for crimes he committed while intoxicated, and my grandmother had divorced him because he abused her. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z But that would not be the end of this crime! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z We went back into 3833 over and over again, but had a hard time finding out anything about the crime. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if we were committing a crime, and it was necessary for them to stand outside school grounds. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The FBI was unable to tie Fuller to any crimes and NCF director George Esser, Jr., backed his man, adding a warning to all those who would attempt to kill the messenger of urban grievances. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I heard once that there are people who commit crimes with the sole purpose of being caught and put in jail. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Red Tie turns his attention away from the crime in progress and onto me. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Compass was lamenting the extent of the crime in the Superdome. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z One characteristic of information crimes is that very few of them are detected. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He was depressed and terrified when they took him to death row before trial before being convicted of any crime, and the weeks became months. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “So you pronounce one person at least innocent of the crime,” said M. Bouc jovially. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “I—I was only thinking of those wicked ones we saw hanging there that day. Ancient, how was their crime found out?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I was trying to bring whoever committed this crime to justice, even if it turned out to be me. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z The police admitted to stopping Whren and Brown because they wanted to investigate them for imagined drug crimes, even though they did not have probable cause or reasonable suspicion such crimes had actually been committed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Neither the owner of the property nor anyone else need be charged with a crime, much less found guilty of one. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As violent crime began to fall dramatically, New Yorkers were more than happy to heap laurels on their operatic, Brooklyn-bred mayor and his hatchet-faced police chief with the big Boston accent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The reaction of the white rulers to our first efforts was swift and brutal: sabotage was declared to be a crime punishable by death. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was perhaps no more attractive theory than the belief that smart policing stops crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z My brother Shade says it’s because arena cities enjoyed a marked reduction in Red crime, dissent, even the few acts of rebellion. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z The Irish Justice of the Stockyards District Police Court, with jurisdiction over minor crimes in that neighborhood, dismissed more than eighty percent of claims brought against strikers accused of violent attacks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But a thorough look at the data reveals that the graying of America did nothing to bring down crime in the 1990s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “But the mayor is the one committing the crime,” said Doon. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The place was growing like a weed—too much traffic, too many tourists, and, yes, even crime. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, no, and again no! That is an explanation that will not hold water. It is deficient in a dozen minor points. The crime was not committed so—M. Poirot must know that perfectly well.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z But despite how infrequently they’re prosecuted, high-profile hate crimes offer a powerful narrative, one that has been important in fighting prejudice. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z His crime was that he did not share the dog meat with the community. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Even if they hadn't been at his house the day of the crime, most black people in Monroeville knew someone who had been with Walter that day. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But race riots, anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, and crime in general were on the rise in American cities, and Ginny and the Warden worried about their children’s safety in Birmingham. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Ration card restrictions, abysmal puddings, the deteriorating quality of fingernail varnish—these are crimes they feel in their souls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z All of a man’s crimes were wiped away when he took the black, and all of his allegiances as well, yet he found it hard to think of Janos Slynt as a brother. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “And we’ll film him. And reveal his crimes to his face. Capture his reaction. Put it on YouTube. Finis.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Milosevic was later charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, and died in prison. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In the end, Marcus’s conviction was overturned, and that other man ended up being found guilty of the crime. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z I tense immediately, afraid that he’s going to name some crime of mine that went unacknowledged, or a confession that’s eating away at him, or something equally difficult. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z "Please," I say, "Sister, tell me. What crime did these children commit that they have fallen so far, so fast?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z And during the summations by the prosecutor and my lawyer, there was a lot said about me, maybe more about me than about my crime. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z These rules have made it possible for law enforcement agencies to boost dramatically their rates of drug arrests and convictions, even in communities where drug crime is stable or declining. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Everyone was streaming out of the school, and there was no going back for her backpack or her jacket, because she did not need to add missing the bus to her list of crimes. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z It’s me and my partner in crime, Lloyd Newman, catching you up on some things that have happened since we told you about our lives in 1993. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He also felt that crime and corruption was rising in Manila and even in Baguio, and although he enjoyed living there, he was uncertain about gaining, or even wanting, asylum. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In the months leading up to Election Day, incumbent mayors routinely try to lock up the law-and-order vote by hiring more police—even when the crime rate is standing still. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z His comments about Jews and the crimes of the United States had stirred things up, but as an American citizen wasn’t he protected by the First Amendment? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “That’s because the North Koreans did not consider South Korean soldiers to be prisoners of war, protected under the Geneva Convention. Instead, they considered them to be fellow citizens who were committing war crimes.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Over and over again, I saw men as bright and talented as my companion resort to crime in order to make ends meet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, I fear it! A complete history of my boyhood crimes.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And there was the- matter of the court martial on the crimes of Colonel Graff. Ender's Game 1985-01-15T00:00:00Z “Boys always forget other people’s birthdays. “You have committed the following crimes,” he continued: “having a dog with an unauthorized alarm, sowing confusion, upsetting the applecart, wreaking havoc, and mincing words.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z I'm about as safe as I can be, here at the crime scene. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z You do the crime, you do the time. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z “We cursed him bitterly under our breath,” said Alfons, “but not one of us refused. That would have been the unthinkable crime of disobeying a direct order.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The crimes committed by Enron included hidden partnerships, disguised debt, and the manipulation of energy markets. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I've also represented people who have committed terrible crimes but nonetheless struggle to recover and to find redemption. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Tonight she reread a piece about what the paper called a crime wave—three robberies—which was next to a story about a college debate team and their success. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “We don’t have any suspects at this time, but we are asking the community to please come forward with any information that can lead us to whoever committed these crimes.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Then he asked Sellers, “Can you command one man to surrender his constitutional rights—if they are his constitutional rights—to prevent another man from committing a crime?” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I am being charged with great bodily injury and a hate crime. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z This is a man who spent his adult life at the bottom of a bottle, trying to anesthetize himself against the Capitol’s crimes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Similarly, the overwhelming majority of people on parole were convicted of nonviolent crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “We’re going home, Cap. I think the rehab center was glad to get rid of me. Some of my opinions didn’t sit well with my fellow patients. Like it’s a crime to speak your mind.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Holy Gods,” one of her guards muttered as they left behind the throng at the crime scene. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Many of my Alabama clients were on death row for crimes they were accused of committing when they were sixteen- or seventeen-year-old children. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Indeed, women who are involved in some relationship with men accused of drug crimes, typically husbands or boyfriends, are among the most frequent claimants in forfeiture proceedings. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It says that crime is contagious — just as a fashion trend is contagious — that it can start with a broken window and spread to an entire community. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Because they are different crimes, and I didn’t know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z They come up with all the cool gadgets that agents use to fight crime. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “If by witchcraft, you mean the arcane practice of reading. Your commander said we’d be tried for our crimes. I want you to tell me just what crime I’ve committed.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “You have committed every crime that warrants execution among the Dauntless,” says Tobias. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Thousands of black men have disappeared into prisons and jails, locked away for drug crimes that are largely ignored when committed by whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z That would explain everything—it would also explain the place chosen for the staging of the crime. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I have noticed that even the most garrulous and shameless of murderers are shy about recounting their crimes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Each judge competes to be the toughest on crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Today, due to recent declines, U.S. crime rates have dipped below the international norm. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Carroll was shaking his head in frustration—about the crime and about all the challenges of peacekeeping—when an aide appeared and told him an American was waiting at the compound gate to see him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Natalie is holding hands with a man convicted of some awful crime. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew no one in my family had committed a crime. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think it’s a crime, but I suppose you’re right,” Father replied. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z In typical cases of juvenile vandalism, the crimes could be traced to a group of youngsters, each trying to outdo the other for thrills. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A seemingly colorblind system has emerged that locks millions of African Americans into a permanent undercaste, and it appears that those who are trapped within it could have avoided it simply by not committing crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Starr, your partner in crime is on the phone,” she says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z It is the innocence which constitutes the crime. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z That in itself was a crime, and today I feel like I owe all these artists money for stealing their music, but by hood standards it didn’t even qualify as illegal. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Against my will, I have been taken prisoner, and feel like I’m being punished for a crime I did not commit. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It touched on so much of what he faced: crime, rehabilitation, the role of the system for good and sometimes ill. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The State has not been looking for a third person, a ringleader for this crime, because I think they recognize that this person doesn't exist.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “So what is your theory of the crime?” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z He put his hand on his chin, like he was investigating a crime. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z In cases where perpetrators of crimes against humanity elude justice in their time, history can often provide at least some final accounting, forensically documenting the murders and exposing the transgressors. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Only if he was planning to commit a crime with it.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The black prisoner, he said, symbolized white society’s crime of keeping black men oppressed and deprived and ignorant, and unable to get decent jobs, turning them into criminals. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She was from the “wrong kind” of family but embedded in a pious Mormon community that, like many communities, visited the crimes of the parents on the children. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “It’s not a crime if you consider him handsome. I’ll admit I judged him wrong; I thought him to be a pompous, selfish idiot, but he’s not so bad.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She was not the only widow made to feel as if she had been complicit in an unspeakable crime. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In Puerto Rico the crimes had always happened somewhere else, in cities far from Macún. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Fuller explained the auto had been used without his knowledge, but his enemies added this latest incident to their quiver despite the fact that Fuller was never charged with any crime. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z This information wouldn’t excuse the crimes, but it might chip away at the stereotype by making a few of the incidents more understandable. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So if you just look at raw correlations between police and crime, you will find that when there are more police, there tends to be more crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In addition to a fear of getting caught, Roy had serious qualms about trying anything illegal—and there was no dodging the fact that vandalism was a crime, however noble the cause. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Cops usually come around after a crime, but never for anything like a school event. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Despite what Roosevelt may have wanted, the responsibility of bringing justice for the crime fell on Rondon since he was the highest-ranking Brazilian military officer. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Shortly after Marsha arrived at Tutwiler, we won the release of Diane Jones, who had been wrongly convicted and sentenced to die in prison for a crime she had not committed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Hooks, a critical witness against McMillian, wasn't persuasive or reliable in the transcript—he just repeated the same story he’d given the police about driving by the cleaners at the time of the crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Dewey, for example, found it difficult to understand “how two individuals could reach the same degree of rage, the kind of psychopathic rage it took to commit such a crime.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He made a fortune in sea traffic among those distant races, but while he did so, the foul crime was planned and carried out in Argos by Aigisthos, who ruled over golden Mykenai seven years. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I intend to prove that this defendant is sane, that he was and is responsible for these frightful crimes,” Buckley said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z These highly racialized appeals, targeted to poor and working-class whites, were nearly always accompanied by vehement promises to be tougher on crime and to enhance the federal government’s role in combating it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He’s been in thirty-eight dramas, twelve crime pictures and comedies, eleven thrillers, eight action films, seven Westerns, six war movies, four documentaries, three horror flicks, two sci-fi films, and a musical, among others. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But just as crime tends to be low on a street where a police car is parked, the 95 percent rate was artificially high: Feldman’s presence had deterred theft. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The people financing these elections are largely unconcerned with whatever modest differences exist between candidates on crime, but punishment gets the votes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There were just as many psychologically damaged people, criminally inclined people, living in the city at the peak of the crime wave as in the trough. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All his crimes weighed heavy on him, the deaths of Stil- son and Bonzo no heavier and no lighter than the rest. Ender's Game 1985-01-15T00:00:00Z A week with the grand- ’rents and I was desperate enough to contemplate the vile crime of beef felony. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Today violent crime rates are at historically low levels, yet incarceration rates continue to climb. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Is white America really sorry for her crimes against the black people? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z So it wasn’t capital punishment that drove crime down, nor was it the booming economy. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Instead of relying solely on old-fashioned cop know-how, he introduced technological solutions like CompStat, a computerized method of addressing crime hot spots. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Now, by offering Booth his hospitality, he had unknowingly made himself an accomplice in the most shocking crime in all of American history—the murder of the president of the United States! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Know something? Fella camped here, kind of a nut. So I came to kick him off. He said something funny. He says, ‘Trespassing ain’t a crime and ain’t a misdemeanor.’ Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There wasn’t much crime to deal with, but he was always on call to come help housewives move furniture, and anybody who needed a ride could depend on Tag to supply taxi service. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z For the crime of destroying the body of Prince Jones, I did not believe in forgiveness. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Say the following to nearly anyone and watch the reaction: “We really need to do something about the problem of white crime.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But since the men arrested at Rivonia were Ninety-Day detainees, and therefore not technically charged with a crime, this judicial principle went by the wayside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d been so wrapped up in dealing with jail and covering my tracks I’d forgotten that the proof of my crime was right there in the yard, the red Mazda missing from the driveway. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Hagrid wasn’t a fully qualified wizard; he had been expelled from Hogwarts in his third year for a crime he had not committed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z To emphasize the fact that suffragists were to be regarded as common criminals, the wardens at the two facilities put them in the same cells with women who had been convicted of committing serious crimes. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Enjoying our life of crime yet? The general seems to think you’re a natural.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I am an accomplice to the world’s oldest crime, he told himself in his loneliest moments. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z But crimes of property and “stranger” crimes—like muggings—are lower. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The crime was a psychological accident, virtually an impersonal act; the victims might as well have been killed by lightning. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, I told him that I could not believe that human beings were being burned in our times; the world would never tolerate such crimes . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is the crime of Cain, a brother’s murder,” I said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I’m here for stealing six cows, two Jerseys and four Guernseys. Cow theft, that’s my crime. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Nervous, feeling as if I’d stumbled on the scene of a crime, I searched the rooms quickly, my footsteps ringing loud in the silence. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z From its headquarters in New York it has charged every citizen of the state with being an accomplice in the crime. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z But with drug crime, neither the purchaser of the drugs nor the seller has any incentive to contact law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As the saying goes, “You gotta hate the crime, but love the criminal.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Hint: of the seven major explanations on the list, only three can be shown to have contributed to the drop in crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But they particularly loved the idea, as stoutly preached by Bratton and Giuliani, that choking off these small crimes was like choking off the criminal element’s oxygen supply. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z There didn’t seem to be any logic to taking a man brought in for gasoline-siphoning and placing him with four men suspected of working together on crimes varying from looting to terrorism. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z That said, the established U.S. methods of keeping guns away from the people who do cause crime are, at best, feeble. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “It’s run by people who are trying to fight crime.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Another staple of 1990s crime fighting—and of the evening news—was the gun buyback. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Is it possible that violent crime has decreased because so many people are being locked up? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing to be nervous about! So it’s a big game. But in the grand scheme of things, in a world rife with famine, disease, war, natural disasters, and crime, is a game all that important?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z I'm a Goth/Wiccan in Alabama, and for the crime of wearing black lipstick, a trench coat, and a pentagram, I've been a social outcast for four years. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is instructive to look at a chart of the crime rate in New York City from, say, the mid- 1960s to the late 1990s. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Hooks eagerly told investigators that he had driven by Jackson Cleaners near the time of the crime and had seen a truck tear away from the cleaners with two men inside. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Historians will likely wonder how we could describe the new caste system as a system of crime control, when it is difficult to imagine a system better designed to create—rather than prevent—crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z As if to justify his crime, Ramsey said that even now “white people in Oklahoma thought no more of killing an Indian than they did in 1724.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He looked at me as though I had committed the worst crime imaginable. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Over a hundred people are dead, and there have been dozens of attacks on Muslims in retaliation for a crime no Muslim committed. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z In most societies, 20 percent of criminals commit 80 percent of crimes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Police harassed boycotters as they waited at pickup stations for their MIA cars, ordering them to move on, threatening to charge them with loitering or hitchhiking—both crimes. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I remember he asked his father, “Can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Describing severe mandatory sentences as a bargaining chip is a major understatement, given its potential for extracting guilty pleas from people who are innocent of any crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The vast majority of those arrested are charged with relatively minor crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z "No! She's not one bit bad. Some liar accused her of stealing a necklace, and they slammed her behind bars and didn't even try to prove she'd committed a crime." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z His fellow officers were putting up crime scene tape. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Though the rate of violent crime in the country is down 20 percent since 1991, the number of people in prison or jail has risen by 50 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The crime of which the accused have been convicted, that is the main crime, the crime of conspiracy, is in essence one of high treason. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I smile at her offenses, for they fall far short of deceit and murder and revenge, the crimes that went unconfessed at Elsinore. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Because the “car” was guilty of transporting someone who had broken a drug law at some time, she could legally lose her only form of transportation, even though she herself committed no crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Within a few years, rumrunning was dominated by the killers and thugs of organized crime. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But in a nation where the organized crime that impending Prohibition had spawned had inserted itself into almost every area of American life, even baseball would not be spared. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Shall I conjure up a medal for him to wear as well? A badge of honor for his crime?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z His denial of his heinous crime would explain the presence of television and newspaper reporters from Dallas and Austin and the Associated Press furiously scribbling down his every word. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z White was convinced that somebody had altered the crime scene. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The population under correctional control—on probation or parole—has tripled as well, an increase driven almost entirely by drug convictions and other nonviolent crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I would say probably within the last six to eight months I've seen a real increase in the brutality of the crimes, and also younger kids doing the real brutal stuff. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They discuss many topics: the worsening crime on New York City’s streets; the demise of the Mets since their glory seasons in ’69 and ’73; day-to-day matters of the bakery. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1992, in Yugoslavia, however, Bobby Fischer’s only crime was to play chess again, after years of isolation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “You must follow all the rules set for you by the Angkar. This way, we will never have to deal with the crimes and corruption of the city people.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it was the morbid effect of living in a crime scene, but I imagined him drinking blood. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z The death of young Ronda was a crime unlike anything the community had ever experienced. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Throughout Europe, wherever the influence of Roman law was felt, the law concerned itself with the factum—the deed, or crime. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z On the same line, Shin saw his uncle’s crimes: disruption of public peace, acts of brutality, and defection to the South. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He was a decent man who had been many years in the employ of the Company—not the kind of man who could be bribed to assist in a crime. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “Might be all I want is to see you pay for crimes. The kin- slayer is accursed in the eyes of gods and men.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Fifty years ago, the prevailing concept in the American criminal justice system was that everyone in the community is the victim when an offender commits a violent crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The visitor would be told that crime rates, black culture, or bad schools were to blame. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He had committed a crime, but he was no more a criminal than I was. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It’s a crime that a place with such excellent defenses would have such terrible weaponry available to the patrols. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z We don't visit her because Mom can't shake the feeling that New York is a dangerous place since the evening news is always reporting a crime there. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In the South, crimes like murder or assault might send you to prison, but interracial sex was a transgression in its own unique category of danger with correspondingly extreme punishments. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The fingerprints on the ID tag are the same prints found just last month at a crime scene finked to Day, prints that don’t match any civilian the Republic has on record. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I thrilled, knowing my body would now commit this crime. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She had gone to the police station to get a statement, which she would take to her visa interview at the American embassy to prove that she had never been convicted of a crime. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Well, well. If it isn’t my partner in crime,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Stealing is a vile crime on Winter; indeed the only man more despised than the thief is the suicide. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Many other sentences, especially for violent crime, were lengthened. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Had he not taken fully upon himself the crime of being black? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, but I don’t see any crime in this boy,” Doctor Snow says. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Blacks knew that no white man accused of a similar crime against a black woman would have been convicted at all, let alone sentenced to die. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z But, as with many crimes against American Indians, the question of which government entity had jurisdiction over the Osage murders was confounding. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Two of the most publicized demolitions — Lexington Terrace in West Baltimore and Lafayette Courts in East Baltimore — were huge projects, housing hundreds of families, that served as centers for crime and infectious disease. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “So you do not think that she is likely to be implicated in this crime?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “Since when is plastering a bumper sticker on something that serious of a crime?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I honestly thought that by following a few online guides, I would somehow be able to waltz into this den of crime unscathed. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m doing time for a crime I didn’t commit,” the actor said. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Who becomes a social pariah and excommunicated from civil society and who trots off to college bears scant relationship to the morality of crimes committed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Reported street crime quadrupled, and homicide rates nearly doubled. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Each non-Jewish prisoner had a colored triangle by his number to denote his “crime.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z I want to ask them to share some with me, but I know it is useless for then they will have to admit their crime. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All was going fine until Barack got a call from someone back in Illinois, letting him know that the senate was somewhat abruptly going back into session to finish work on the crime bill. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Not really. She just mentions how I shouldna wiped off that blood. I’m not going to be charged with being an accessory to a crime or anything, am I?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandmother, who had separated from my grandfather many years earlier, was especially unnerved by the crime and his death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Which was okay with Matt, except that Furball wasn’t punished for his crimes either. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And Moreau’s awful deeds are well documented—as are the past seven hundred years of magician crimes in our world. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z A key fact of white- collar crime is that we hear about only the very slim fraction of people who are caught cheating. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In the early months of ’63, the theft of food was their only crime against the community; by March, however, a killing took place. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z We should care deeply about all people impacted, including people who live in fear of violence, people who are survivors, and those who commit violent crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “If you don’t care about what you say or do, then why didn’t you re-enact that crime out at the Dalton home today?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Then I could find them and hear their side of the story. lf I could do that, and they said they remembered you from the day of the crime, I'd feel so much better. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z It wasn’t good to know inmates’ crimes, because then you might treat them unequally. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You seem to be describing plans to commit a crime. I don’t want to hear any more about it. As a lawyer I can’t be a party to it.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There was a culture of silence surrounding the crime. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Environmental Tipping Points are things that we can change: we can fix broken windows and clean up graffiti and change the signals that invite crime in the first place. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Confess your crimes. Promise never to bomb Vietnam again.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The crime bill had failed to pass the state legislature, losing by five votes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Early in his career Owen used his influence at the Zoological Society to blackball a young man named Robert Grant whose only crime was to have shown promise as a fellow anatomist. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When he read newspapers, Squire noted, Hulbert “studiously avoided all crime news, lest he stumble upon something relating to a person he might afterwards have to execute.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Several witnesses had told us that around the time of the crime, a white man had been seen leaving the cleaners. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They urged the Court to prohibit the police from stopping motorists for the purpose of drug investigations unless the officers actually had reason to believe a motorist was committing, or had committed, a drug crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z To make Julio pay for his crime, the expedition would have to find him first. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z "It's my job to collect evidence from the scene of the crime, and I store that evidence in the safety of my trunk." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Declining crime rates, coupled with a decline in public concern about crime, have also helped to create a rare opening for a productive public conversation about the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z With street crime, meanwhile, that is not the case. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Still...she didn’t know if his soul had found peace in the Underworld, or if he’d been reborn, or if he’d been washed into Tartarus because of his crimes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z So all of a sudden my mom had a six-year-old saying she was a Christian, which—if you didn’t know—was a crime in Iran. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The actor, still masquerading as a Confederate soldier, commented on his own crime and analyzed for the Garretts the motives of Lincoln’s killer! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They were mostly in for white-collar crimes, money schemes, fraud and racketeering. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Like the majority of American law-enforcement officials, Dewey is certain that capital punishment is a deterrent to violent crime, and he felt that if ever the penalty had been earned, the present instance was it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The truth, however, is that most people stopped and searched in the War on Drugs are perfectly innocent of any crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The story of abortion in Romania might seem an odd way to begin telling the story of American crime in the 1990s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He could walk into a post office, it was said, go over to the Wanted posters, and, just by looking at the mug shots, say what crimes the various fugitives had committed. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It seems as though everything tied together; the Jews and a little girl, both victims of a hate crime, and now the graffiti we saw in the nation’s capital. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z All this says nothing of the fact that Prohibition was directly responsible for the birth of organized crime in America and the introduction of the American gangster. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Although it was a crime to talk about escaping from Camp 14, it was not against the rules to fantasize about what life would be like if the government were to set you free. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Still, it is fair to wonder why the police would choose to arrest such an astonishing percentage of the American public for minor drug crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Those were only the incidents where we found fingerprints—I can only guess at the number of other crimes he’s committed. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z It was hard to justify judging him when I was guilty of his same crimes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Television is overloaded with fictional dramas about police, crime, and prosecutors—shows such as Law & Order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z My life of crime started off small, selling pirated CDs on the corner. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Several of the people I met weren't actually related but had been at the fish fry on the day of the crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z "You think if you commit a crime, the police give you a choice where to go? You think they'll send you back into your mother's arms?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “It’s why the Bureau is involved. We think this was an interstate crime.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Terrance continued to advertise for her capture, filling the classifieds in far-off states with her description and details of her crime. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z "No, ma'am, we were too scared, we just ran. Is that a crime?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Annabelle might commit a crime for a drink of cold water. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z They developed instead the racially sanitized rhetoric of “cracking down on crime”—rhetoric that is now used freely by politicians of every stripe. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Few seem to feel that the exchange of their time and liberty for their commission of a crime is a fair one, and many if not most continue to insist upon their innocence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It took some experts many years to even recognize that crime was falling, so confident had they been of its continuing rise. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Since the attacks in New York, he would say, every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person’s faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z They drove away leaving that name, Castor, hanging in the air like some horrible apparition, like the key to a lock, like the solution to an unsolved crime. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to record the crimes against the Osage and wanted to make sure that the agents who had worked with him were not erased from history. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Pope Innocent IV went on record saying that the Jews were not guilty of these crimes, hut the accusations persisted. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z His identity as an outsider, a Northerner, and the nature of the crime seemed to generate heightened contempt from law enforcement officials. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Sure enough, the states with the highest abortion rates in the 1970s experienced the greatest crime drops in the 1990s, while states with low abortion rates experienced smaller crime drops. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z If the boys had owned up to the crime they might have escaped some of the punishment. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s just that he was not a National Socialist. He simply couldn’t go along with it—that was his crime.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Also, a smaller community tends to exert greater social incentives against crime, the main one being shame. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z "Yes, he made the classic mistake of all criminals; he returned to the scene of the crime." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z For there is a tower there seventy-five feet high, filled with ashes, and there they push a man guilty of sacrilege or notorious for other crimes to destruction. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Violent crime cripples the black community and does no favors to those who engage in it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z During the 1990s, the unemployment rate fell by 2 percentage points; nonviolent crime, meanwhile, fell by roughly 40 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I began asking myself: Why was it a crime to be without books and a proper uniform? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z These legislatures were following a long tradition, dating back to ancient Greece, of treating those convicted of crimes as less than full citizens. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But he wasn’t afraid to say it: my callousness inspired in him a horror nearly greater than that which he felt at the crime of parricide. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z LeAlan: What do you think needs to be done to communities like The Wells to keep youth crimes from escalating? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Since Mary Anne never went anywhere, the punishment did not seem to compensate for the heinousness of the crime. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But they also made it clear they didn’t really suspect a crime of any kind. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The crime, clueless and apparently motiveless, had taken place Saturday night, December 19, at the Walker home, on a cattle-raising ranch not far from Tallahassee. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z But because some of them had recently been arrested, or convicted of crimes, White would at least hold some leverage over them. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She planted her hands on her hips and stared at the crime scene. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, politicians, law enforcement officials, and journalists routinely create the false impression that most people branded criminals have been convicted of violent crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But we can do better and find the bandit confessing his crime. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Only the steady pounding of rain on the roof is gratifying, sounding as if old Huracan were beating on the building for all the crimes engineered inside. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In those days, the purposeful act of ending human life was considered the most heinous of crimes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Any difficult crime he always referred to the state police: in fact, they wound up processing most of his arrests. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The archive reflects the human need to document every deed and directive, to place a veil of administrative tidiness over the disorder of famines and plagues and natural disasters and crimes and wars. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But that was not what Perry really believed; he believed what he’d written Don Cullivan, with whom he now corresponded regularly: his crime was “unforgivable,” and he fully expected to “climbs those thirteen steps.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The Empire raids, jails, and kills for such “crimes,” but teaching a six-year-old her letters isn't evil—not in the minds of my people, the Scholar people. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Thought- crime is a dreadful thing, old man,” he said sententiously. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I know it don’t look like the crime of the century, but still—” “I understand,” said Officer Delinko. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For years she had held on to this secret crime. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z His crime was briefly holding the reins of Booth’s horse in the alley behind Ford’s Theatre. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One hunger sharpened another hunger, and one crime blotted out the one before it, and the little crimes committed against those starving men flared into one gigantic maniac crime. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z What's even better is that she remembers you from the afternoon of the crime. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Instead, whoever was behind the crimes must have employed henchmen. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The elimination of judicial discretion through mandatory sentencing laws has forced judges to impose sentences for drug crimes that are often longer than those imposed for violent crimes in many countries around the world. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They were part of what is called the Street Crime Unit, a special division of the New York Police Department, dedicated to patrolling crime “hot spots” in the city’s poorest neighborhoods. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It was considered perfectly acceptable until the mid-nineteenth century, when Latin scholars—notably Henry Alford in his book A Plea for the Queens English—misguidedly called it a crime. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The random stops, questioning, and harassment dramatically increase the risk of arrest for petty crimes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There was another demographic change, however, unforeseen and long-gestating, that did drastically reduce crime in the 1990s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I'm off to commit my first real crime. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Like posting details of a crime on a wanted poster. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The Stinney execution was horrific and heartbreaking, but it reflected the racial politics of the South more than the way children accused of crimes were generally treated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Her crimes had seemed minimal, but now Ophie could not help but see her afternoon respites through her mother’s eyes, and shame ran through her, hot and itchy. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “If they’re his crimes and infractions, he must have committed them.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Because criminals respond to incentives as readily as anyone, the result was a surge in crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It confirms me in my belief about the crime.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z There is absolutely no evidence in the trial record or the recantation testimony that places Ralph Meyers somewhere other than the scene of the crime at the time it was committed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “The hands of the watch pointed to 1:15—the exact time when the intruder actually left the scene of the crime.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z A good chase with a few near misses added tension to the eventual crime scene. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The taller the building, the more people you place on top of one another, the higher the crime rate. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I kept picturing a Celia-led mob chasing me down the street, screaming about my devilish crime like Puritans at a witch trial. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z It is frequently argued in defense of mass incarceration that African Americans want more police and more prisons because crime is so bad in some ghetto communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Not everyone accused of a crime is a criminal, you know. And besides, I’m not twelve.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z “Stop hitting poor old St. Paul—and give your heaviest raps on the head of every Nabob—man or woman—who does injustice to a human being—for the crime of color or sex!!” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I’m supposed to be analyzing the crime scene . . . but I can’t concentrate. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I mean, DD is this lunatic man on Richmond Avenue who makes believe he’s the leader of organized crime on Staten Island, but all he handles are the hubcaps and radios that kids steal. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z "No, it isn't. But since there's always an element of crime in freedom —" "I ain't committed no crime!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “The time is long gone when I could frighten you with a burning wardrobe and force you to make repayment for your crimes. But I wish I could, Tom...I wish I could...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Moreover, the circumstances of the crime seem to him to fit exactly the concept of “murder without apparent motive.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Does merely increasing the number of police, however, reduce crime? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “You remember how awful it was. They were charged with a hate crime.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z After a few days this boy “confesses” anything that he is asked to confess, any crime that handily happens to be unsolved and on the calendar. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company was confessing to the wrong crime; its slogan was perfectly grammatical. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One reason they persisted was that the lord of the manor could accuse the Jewish community of a crime, find the entire community guilty, and impose a heavy fine. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z In recent years, dozens of people have been killed by police in the course of these raids, including elderly grandparents and those who are completely innocent of any crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I could easily get away with the perfect crime. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z That is not what one would guess, however, when entering our nation’s prisons and jails, which are overflowing with black and brown people convicted of drug crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Cadence displayed a disquieting desire to rid herself of all unnecessary possessions, even things of sentimental value, almost as if doing penance for past crimes. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z These children—unoffending, innocent, and beautiful—were the victims of one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Most incarcerated women—nearly two-thirds—are in prison for nonviolent, low-level drug crimes or property crimes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “The true crime section is to the right. The criminal law section is behind it.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “If you heard I’d committed some great crime would you turn me over to the police?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The State's primary evidence against Mr. Hinton involved a third crime where a witness identified him as the assailant. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Nobody was in the true crime section, which was a relief. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “I guess we may be headed for a life of crime after all.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z And there was the matter of the court martial on the crimes of Colonel Graff. Ender's Game 1985-01-15T00:00:00Z When a violent crime or a robbery occurs, the criminal activity usually causes harm or violates someone’s rights. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Her son Alfred and a friend had been on a crime spree, robbing at least five liquor stores at gunpoint. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Demographic change is too slow and subtle a process—you don’t graduate from teenage hoodlum to senior citizen in just a few years—to even begin to explain the suddenness of the crime decline. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But like violent crime in general, the murder rate cannot explain the growth of the penal apparatus. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Instead of wondering what made crime fall, think about this: why had it risen so dramatically in the first place? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Their crime was conducting unthinkable research on Jews without consent—sewing siblings together to create Siamese twins, dissecting people alive to study organ function. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z For an information crime to reach the surface, something drastic must happen. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z "City's starving, it's a crime to waste food. You have any wine?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Further hint: one of the greatest measurable causes of the crime drop does not appear on the list at all, for it didn’t receive a single newspaper mention. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z "Does honor stop at the Bloody Cate? You accuse me of crimes, I deny them, so you throw me into an open cell to freeze and starve." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Among whites, those expressing the highest degree of concern about crime also tend to oppose racial reform, and their punitive attitudes toward crime are largely unrelated to their likelihood of victimization. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And because the death penalty is rarely given for crimes other than homicide, its deterrent effect cannot account for a speck of decline in other violent crimes. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z If we could see one another’s pain and empathize with one another, it would never be worth it to us to commit the crimes in the first place. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I told them the details that had been reported to me, the viciousness of the beating, and the cover-up of the crime. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With no credible scientific evidence that a crime had occurred, the State introduced inflammatory evidence that Marsha was poor, a prior drug user, and obviously a bad mother for not seeking prenatal care. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “So be it. Sal Lockton, it is the order of this court that you be branded on your right cheek with the letter of I in punishment for your crimes against your lady mistress.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The Brady Act, accordingly, has proven to be practically impotent in lowering crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The notion that African Americans support “get tough” approaches to crime is further complicated by the fact that “crime” is not a generic category. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “While we haven’t received a statement from the Oakland Unified School District, the Oakland Police Department has reported to NBC4 that no crime was committed, so no arrests have been made.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Someday in that far future, my son must hear of the foul crimes of Denmark, the revenge unleashed there, and its tragic ending. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z You and Manny, who are equal in pretty much every way apart from race, could commit the same crime, but it’s almost guaranteed that he would receive a harsher punishment than you. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z So even for someone who considers a fetus to be worth only one one-hundredth of a human being, the trade-off between higher abortion and lower crime is, by an economist’s reckoning, terribly inefficient. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The most ardent opponents of civil rights legislation and desegregation were the most active on the emerging crime issue. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I mean, anybody who commits this kind of crime probably has gone through something in their lives. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I had consumed practical guides to homicide investigations, so I knew that the longer it took to solve a crime, the more likely it was that it would never be solved. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z In other words, guns do not cause crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Though his analysis nudged my thoughts back to Mr. Katz and the unspeakable crimes he had likely committed, it came as an indescribable relief to hear Frankie say it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Flora was certain that this was a true and genuine emergency, an absolute and undeniable crime. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z It is true that a stronger job market may make certain crimes relatively less attractive. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “You wanted her branded then? Twenty strokes of the lash would be more in keeping with her crimes.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman wasn’t lamenting an old plantation injustice but a crime perpetrated here in South Carolina. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Generations of black men will continue to be lost—rounded up for crimes that go ignored on the other side of town and ushered into a permanent second-class status. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They watched Max place a circle of yellow crime scene tape near my trunk, using metal stakes. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Indeed, there are plenty of people who consider abortion itself to be a violent crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Under questioning, Davis confessed to the crime, but was not prosecuted; he was already facing several other burglary charges. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Hoover would rapidly reshape the bureau into a monolithic force—one that, during his nearly five-decade reign as director, he would deploy not only to combat crime but also to commit egregious abuses of power. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z From a high in 1990, the crime rate went into precipitous decline. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a long range of crimes— espionage, sabotage, and the like—to which everyone had to confess as a matter of course. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Citing the severity of the crime, the district attorney will charge him as an adult, stripping him of the protections normally given to juveniles. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He still entertained a pair of opinions—or, to use his word, “concepts”—and, in reconstructing the crime, had developed both a “single-killer concept” and a “double-killer concept.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Only an idiot would return to the scene of the crime. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z But it is a spirited country, is pollution-free, and has no urban slums and virtually no crime. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Her sisters confirmation of her crime was terrible to hear. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The hunting of whales is a heinous crime. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s a tax-related crime in Utah to reside there over an extended period of time while claiming you live in another state. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z More important, they believed the crimes they committed were legitimate because they were committed in the heat of passion: anger, jealousy, loss of face, and so on. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z But now that I wanted to figure out if he was really innocent, I needed to know exactly what happened the day of the crime. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z This is not to say crime is unimportant; it is very important. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He pronounced "incorrect" as though the term described the most heinous crime imaginable, and I stared at him open-mouthed, feeling a vague guilt. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In this system of control, failing to cope well with one’s exile status is treated like a crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He wondered what his aunt and uncle would do with them; burn them in the dead of night, probably, as if they were the evidence of some dreadful crime. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Jones, Aaron- son, and Rutherford were guilty of the crimes they were charged with. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z They were accustomed to hardened maximum-security prisoners, and their tools were too severe to work with these men, so many of them guilty of the smallest of crimes—curfew violations, trespassing, public drunkenness. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Then there are the younger ones like me: kids whose crimes cast them out of warm homes, or cold homes, or no homes, by a parental conspiracy that sees all with unblinking Big-Brother eyes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It was, after all, a crime to speak to Estraven, let alone to feed and clothe and house him, as they did. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The judge said there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Officer Moore with a crime. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z “The crime was committed at a quarter past one this morning. Everything goes to show that was so.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, he was not above seeing an innocent man die for his crime. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Even at that time Winston had not imagined that the people who were wiped out in the purges had actually committed the crimes that they were accused of. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The crime, then, was not committed at a quarter past one. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Looting was a crime punishable by death, and looters were hanged or shot immediately without a trial. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z To yell “black- on-black crime” is to shoot a man and then shame him for bleeding. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It’s happened before that someone’s been convicted of murder and executed, and years later someone else has confessed to the crime. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The likelihood of punishment was so low—this was the heyday of a liberal justice system and the criminals’ rights movement—that it simply didn’t cost very much to commit a crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The Goetz case has become a symbol of a particular, dark moment in New York City history, the moment when the city’s crime problem reached epidemic proportions. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This feels like I've been imprisoned for a crime and I'm awaiting sentencing. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She had seen the images from helicopters, the press conferences, she had heard the statistics, the stories of gangs and rampant crime. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The judge jumped in with, "Well, it does sound like you're trying to retry the case, Mr. Stevenson, so I'm going to allow the State to keep the crime investigators in the courtroom." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “And what sort of crime would that be?” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Though I could not deliver justice for the crimes of Claudius, nor rebuke Gertrude for being fickle, I did strike at their consciences. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But really, if you commit a crime you have to pay the piper, what did she expect? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then came the crime wave of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Ian had been neglected by his family before the crime took place. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Thanks in no small part to her decryptions, the Coast Guard was intercepting many more rumrunners, depriving the crime bosses of their profits. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The septa had lost her head with the rest, for the crime of serving House Stark. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was an old practice, holding family members responsible for the crime of a relative. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z One hundred full verses exactly copied out in longhand, because it is the final one that reveals your crime. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I idly considered stealing it, in the way that people idly consider many crimes it would be possible for them to commit. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I know the word framed means a person was set up to look guilty of a crime they didn’t commit. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z I stand up to get ready to push her off before walking back to the hatch, to get away from the scene of the crime. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The immediate area secured, Stanton turned to his second mission, launching the investigation into the crimes that had occurred at Ford’s and at the Seward house. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the brutal, debilitating impact of these “collateral consequences” on the lives of those convicted of crimes, courts have generally declined to find that such sanctions are actually “punishment” for constitutional purposes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z To the contrary, in 1992, presidential candidate Bill Clinton vowed that he would never permit any Republican to be perceived as tougher on crime than he. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Even for high-end drug crimes, most countries impose sentences that are measured in months, rather than years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He ultimately admitted that he had never known anything about the Morrison murder, had no clue what had happened to her or anything else at all about the crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She had no idea if crime scene investigators looked at that sort of thing. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z We could not agree on a mutually satisfactory definition of “politically motivated” crimes, and this would be an issue that would bedevil us for quite a while to come. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the first time in as long as I could remember that hunger wasn’t a punishment or a crime or a weapon or a mode of self-destruction. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sounds to me like she was just trying to help out her dad. No crime there.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s Christmas, and it’s not a crime to want to come to a party. Just this once, we’II forget any punishment; you may stay, Draco.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z It is the least obvious but most heinous of all race crimes, for it kills the spirit and the will to live. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just want it right. No hassles. No ... You know, burglary is a serious crime. I don’t want to end up in—” “What burglary? This ain’t no burglary. This is Pilate.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Millions of state and federal dollars were authorized to create advocacy groups for crime victims in each state. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I saw the difference between criminals and people who’ve committed crimes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z At their second trial they confessed to all their old crimes over again, with a whole string of new ones. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z So through a complicated, haphazard, and constantly readjusted web of economic, social, and moral incentives, modern society does its best to militate against crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Another of the planners of this crime was to stand outside the drugstore and impede anyone chasing the robbers. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z The punishment didn’t begin to fit the crime. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Florida is one of a few states that allows the prosecutor to decide to charge a child in adult court for certain crimes and has no minimum age for trying a child as an adult. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment for crimes against humanity. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “In the old days, he committed horrible crimes. He used his gift of sight for evil. Jupiter sent the harpies to plague him. The Argonauts—including your ancestor, by the way—” “The prince of Pylos?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The chief preaches and revers the achievements of the Angkar, the philosophy of the government to build this perfect agrarian society where there are no crimes, no deceit, no trickery, and no Western influence. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A crime like that cried out for punishment. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, at the bus station, Santiago says, “What they did to you was illegal, Virginia. A crime. Even though you signed that paper, you might be able to press charges and sue them.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “And when we have the fair, and those lunatics come down from Chicago and up from Saint Louis. If you ask me, it’s the city types that bring the crime with them.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “You committed a great crime, but you at least deserved to be born as a worm or a lizard. I mean, really, it’s a bit drastic to be born as a softskin, don’t you think?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “You have been brought here before the Council of Magical Law,” he said clearly, “so that we may pass judgment on you, for a crime so heinous —” “Father,” said the boy with the straw-colored hair. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “On such an expedition the theft of food comes next to murder as a crime, and should by rights be punished as such,” Roosevelt wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z I pointed out that the state basketball finals would take place in Phoenix that Saturday, and that would end the season and clear the way for her cheerleading crimes to be forgotten. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Its per capita rate of violent crime made it the second most dangerous city in America, but its citizens still paid some of the highest rents in the country. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Washington, D.C., and Chicago both instituted handgun bans well before crime began to fall across the country in the 1990s, and yet those two cities were laggards, not leaders, in the national reduction in crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The rise of Hush Puppies and the fall of New York’s crime rate are textbook examples of epidemics in action. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Kelsie Morrison had earlier told agents that Hale was certain that “money will buy the protection or acquittal of any man for any crime in Osage County.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z That doesn't make any of them guilty of a crime. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t try to kill a poor old woman whose only crime is decency. You don’t drag her off to live in a moral sewer.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I’m not talking here about racial differences in overall crime rates. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z His interest lay wholly in the crime—swooning middle-aged ladies did not interest him at all. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z When researchers have controlled for joblessness, differences in violent crime rates between young black and white men disappear. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z That was what Matt heard when the boys trotted out his crimes: Gobble-obble-obble-obble. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The crackdown inspired by the War on Drugs has resulted in unprecedented punitiveness, as housing officials began exercising their discretion to deny poor people access to public housing for virtually any crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They con-demned the sabotage as heinous crimes while at the same time deriding it as the work of foolish amateurs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Nasser knew that he would be safe at the campus, with little possibility of flooding or crime, but still he went with Zeitoun. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z They point to violent crime rates in the African American community as a justification for the staggering number of black men who find themselves behind bars. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The problem was that not all crime victims received the same treatment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z This is followed closely by the memory of my mother telling me crossing the street anywhere but the crosswalk is a crime called jaywalking. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Over two thousand condemned people sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for crimes when they were children were now potentially eligible for relief and reduced sentences. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z One article said that thousands of innocent people were convicted of crimes each year. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z It was run by the mob, he said, which controlled all the construction projects in the city, so before he could get a decent job, he had to run organized crime out of town. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z How else will they be taught that law and order guarantees their children a brighter future than begging, horse dealing, and petty crime? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Another category of restriction: “persons convicted of a crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When he came to, there was a funny new look on his face, almost sheepish, as if he’d been caught committing some terrible crime. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As the link between abortion and crime makes clear, unwanted children—who are disproportionately subject to neglect and abuse—have worse outcomes than children who were eagerly welcomed by their parents. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Then, in my most careful handwriting, come all the details it would be a crime to forget. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Some members were U.S. residents, living in Los Angeles until 1996, when a federal law began requiring judges to deport them if they committed serious crimes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z One side of the hallway is reserved for people who have been convicted of drug or property crimes and who have relatively short sentences of five years or fewer. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She also spoke about education, crime, the environment, war, taxes, insurance, health and medicine, the justice system...and fruit. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The crime wave of the 1920s and 1930s, the great gangster era, increased public interest in prisons and punishment, and the interest of Hollywood in particular. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Wolf's trial also sparked a debate about crimes committed during the Cold War, who should be considered guilty, and the uncertain connections between past and present. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z "We've told you of your father's crimes. If you are truly as loyal as you say, why should you want to see him?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z For a tragic crime committed at fourteen, Trina was condemned to die in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The sanctuary program offers cash rewards to anybody who calls in tips about serious environmental crimes. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Not right this minute,” the detective said, “but we’ve got lots more questions. He’s definitely our prime suspect in this crime.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The press later described the killings as being as “dark and sordid as any murder story of the century” and the “bloodiest chapter in American crime history.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But, after he murdered, he accepted the crime. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The population most affected by this misguided law is formerly incarcerated women with children, most of whom were imprisoned for drug crimes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z State legislatures enacted harsh new punishments for crimes, naming statutes after particular victims. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z After everything she had done to atone for her crime, after she had turned her marriage into an arctic wasteland and allowed a surgeon to tie her fallopian tubes, consanguinity wasn’t finished with her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I’ve been talking to you about seven thousand pages of documentation of crimes,” he growled. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z That doesn’t mean, of course, that the police are causing the crime, just as it doesn’t mean, as some criminologists have argued, that crime will fall if criminals are released from prison. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He kept his body busy so that his mind wouldn’t have a chance to think: about the growing coldness of his wife, or the way their crime pursued them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z None of this is to suggest that we ought not be concerned about violent crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Until the mid-1980s, the law made no distinction between crimes motivated by bigotry and crimes motivated by money, passion, or boredom. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Perhaps the child would end up being a serial murderer, like those women on television crime documentaries, standing half-naked on dark roads to lure truck drivers and then strangle them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She had declared a blanket pardon for all crimes committed during the sack. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Prayed he’d be safe from all the dangers that lurked for a young black man in Oakland—guns and crime and gangs and cops. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The criminal always work at one crime—that is the true criminal who seems predestinate to crime, and who will of none other. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z In one of his past crimes, he crept into a quarantine zone by tying up a street policeman. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Seen in that light, he said, a test ban would be “a crime against the people.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By the end of 1993, the rate of property crime and violent crime, including homicides, had already fallen nearly 20 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z When Mrs. Moss discovered their crime, she locked the boys in their bedroom, which had a sliding glass door that opened into the indoor dining room. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Even in good areas like this, these days there are crimes,” she says to Maxine, shaking her head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z If Erudite didn’t take over, the only real crime left is siding with them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Second, he had robbed the community of food: a very serious crime, even though what he had taken was leftovers, set out on the dwelling doorsteps for collection. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z No crime of commission was ever attributed to him, and his crimes of omission were only misdemeanors. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “There’s been some crime in the neighborhood, and I don’t like being there alone.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She hadn’t been able to see another crime scene to determine if Wyrdmarks had been painted in blood there as well. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It may be more comforting to believe what the newspapers say, that the drop in crime was due to brilliant policing and clever gun control and a surging economy. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z We tell ourselves they “deserve” their fate, even though we know—and don’t know—that whites are just as likely to commit many crimes, especially drug crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Beginning in the 1960s, crime rates rose in the United States for a period of about ten years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Tennessee’s disasters were the fruit of indifferent nature, without connection to the crimes of the homesteaders. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But it went on much longer than when he was talking about my crime—so long, in fact, that finally all I was aware of was how hot a morning it was. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The temptation to venture into crime was too strong, and I decided to work quickly, taking whatever was in sight, amass a wad of money, and flee. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “There was a couple in Virginia who’d been convicted of a crime for marrying, and your G’pop wasn’t willing to take the risk of marrying in secret,” she says. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z With Myers back as the primary witness and Bill Hooks ready to say that he saw Walter's truck at the crime scene, the district attorney believed that he could proceed against McMillian. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The pressure to plead guilty to crimes has increased exponentially since the advent of the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z These fictional dramas, like the evening news, tend to focus on individual stories of crime, victimization, and punishment, and the stories are typically told from the point of view of law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Whites, on average, are more punitive than blacks, despite the fact that blacks are far more likely to be victims of crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The prisoner’s dilemma owes its name to a scenario, formally identical to the one above, wherein two men suspected of a major crime are apprehended in the course of committing some minor offense. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She paused and then said, “Anyway, when Marcus was later accused of the crime, the prosecutors told that story, used it against him. They said he had a violent past.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Long after crime had peaked, in fact, some of them continued to predict ever darker scenarios. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z We had plenty of street crime, but all the actual warring in recent years had been way in the east of the country, a thousand miles away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “But, okay, say it was kids. That means it’s not a crime?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that Oscar had started out on his life of crime by going on a shoplifting spree when he was my age. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z "Have you not noticed all the unsolved crimes in the newspaper? The police say they need our help, that it's our duty to report suspicious activity." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Or were they really trying to pin other crimes upon him? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In Iran, if you convert from Islam to Christianity or Judaism, it’s a capital crime. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z All crimes except mine—dissing the basketball team. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z I had read enough crime novels to know the real criminal runs. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The original objective had been to detect terrorist plots, but now the NSA was raking in and storing data on citizens not suspected of any crime. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z His crimes were known, but what he had felt before he committed them would never be known. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3 million in such a short period of time due to changes in laws and policies, not changes in crime rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Aunt Wu had been detained too, even though her only crime was having had relations with other men before she married Uncle Tian. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The killing—which the Washington Post called “the most brutal in crime annals in the District”—appeared to be more than simply a murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “You have been discovered at the scene of the crime!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z And only in a culture of honor would it have occurred to a jury that murder—under those circumstances—was not a crime. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z We talk about “epidemics of violence” or crime waves, but it’s not clear that we really believe that crime follows the same rules of epidemics as, say, Hush Puppies did, or Paul Revere’s ride. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In Alabama, even though 65 percent of all homicide victims were black, nearly 80 percent of the people on death row were there for crimes against victims who were white. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But if you believe this system effectively controls crime, consider this: standard estimates of the amount of crime reduction that can be attributable to mass incarceration range from 3 to 25 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At the outset, operative No. 10 asked Mathis, who’d been a juror on the inquest, to show him the crime scene. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Now he is the first physician to come upon the crime scene. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I couldn't tell whether he felt guilty about something himself, or thought I had committed some crime. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z So for all practical purposes you were up to your neck in a crime in which a man was murdered. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z But this duty, Creon’s proclamation said, was changed in the cause of Polyneices to a crime. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In response, one state after another enacted direct-file laws that allowed juvenile offenders to be transferred to adult courts if they committed certain crimes. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Considering this fact, it might be worthwhile to take a familiar question—why is there so much crime in modern society?—and stand it on its head: why isn’t there a lot more crime? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Again, it may help to look backward and see why crime had risen so much in the first place. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Due to recent crime spikes in the area, we felt it was best for the safety of the students if security was heightened,” says Superintendent Cook. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z They were fiercely opposed to this particular settlement, in which they had to enumerate their crimes before receiving indemnity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was brought to the square, forced to plead guilty to his crime, and sentenced to a whipping to be carried out immediately. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z "No! Real crimes. You know, robberies and murders." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I knew her well enough to know that if I committed almost any crime and told her the truth about it she not only wouldn’t disown me but would give me her protection. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I now ask the jury,” shouted Mr. Crouch, “to raise their hands if they believe, as I do, that these crimes deserve a life sentence in Azkaban!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z They saw no such crime, but they saw plenty of death. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Ignoring rampant crime in ghetto communities would be racially discriminatory, they say; responding forcefully to it is not. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z All his crimes weighed heavy on him, the deaths of Stilson and Bonzo no heavier and no lighter than the rest. Ender's Game 1985-01-15T00:00:00Z This explanation has tremendous appeal—before you know the facts—for it is consistent with, and reinforces, dominant racial narratives about crime and criminality dating back to slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Prison did not deter crime significantly, many experts concluded. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He hadn’t committed a big crime, just some silly misdemeanor. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Some countries faced with rising drug crime or seemingly intractable rates of drug abuse and drug addiction chose the path of drug treatment, prevention, education, or economic investment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The evidence linking increased punishment with lower crime rates is very strong. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Panic over the impending crime wave expected from these "radically impulsive, brutally remorseless" children led nearly every state to enact legislation that increased the exposure of children to adult prosecution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I’d never seen a newspaper back home say such things about people possibly involved in crimes who hadn’t been arrested, but Mexican papers were quick to report speculations. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I kept the mending basket close to hand in case I needed to hide my crime. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z If there are significant differences in the surveys to be found, they frequently suggest that whites, particularly white youth, are more likely to engage in drug crime than people of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In fact, surveys consistently show that African Americans are generally less supportive of harsh criminal justice policies than whites, even though blacks are far more likely to be victims of crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I was told that the black citizens of PG County were comfortable and had “a certain impatience” with crime. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Among the many crimes that exist in the Khmer Rouge society, bartering for food is viewed as an act of treason. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What if, deep down, Citra had accepted the apprenticeship with Scythe Faraday to punish herself for the crime only she cared about. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z This night Hamlet had revealed, through the play, his knowledge of Claudius’s crime. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z If I could prove that Marcus didn’t commit his crime, then Mom would have to let me have a relationship with him. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z A crime is a relatively rare and aberrant event. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Behind every great wealth, Julio, there’s a great crime. You know who said that?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Today it was about whether—in the case of homicide—the corpus delicti is the knife or the dead man whose death is the actual proof of the crime. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Metias’s crime scene returns to my thoughts—but as I replay it in my mind, I see his face turn into that of Day’s mother. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z But Dennis, I have promised myself, will not learn of the crime from me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a crime, the lie that has been told to generations of black men and white men both. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Poaching is a serious crime, and shiftas are dangerous if they think someone has seen them at work. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a crime punishable by death to attack the King, and the royal mark was painted on every one of the coaches in that caravan. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The whole tower was loaded with the ill-gotten wealth of years of crime. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Instead of a faceless state or community, crime victims were featured at trial, and criminal cases took on the dynamics of a traditional civil trial, pitting the family of the victim against the offender. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Iranians wanted the shah returned to the country so he could be tried for war crimes. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z "It would be a crime to drink this rich a wine without letting it breathe." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “You are accusing me of the crime. Me? I am innocent. I am absolutely innocent. Why should I want to kill a Monsieur whom I have never seen before?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “The crimes they have committed against people like us are serious,” Nita says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Rafik said, “I would be like Superman. I would fight crime and evil forces and no one would even see me.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It coincided with an even broader American crime wave that had been building for two decades. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She told us it was safe, that in all the time she’d lived there as a kid, she had not once experienced crime or violence. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I stumbled out and got a damp towel and began rubbing out the evidence of my crime. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Imprisonment, they say, now creates far more crime than it prevents, by ripping apart fragile social networks, destroying families, and creating a permanent class of unemployables. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The atrocious crime was not avenged in Atreus’ lifetime, but his children and his children’s children suffered. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Another inmate housed with Joe wrote to us and described him as disabled, horribly mistreated, and wrongfully condemned to die in prison for a non-homicide crime at thirteen. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Miss Palma gave me a sad, sympathetic look, and Annette was studying me like she was Sherlock Holmes and I was a handkerchief at a crime scene. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It was for herself, for her own crime which her conscience could no longer bear. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In fact, the trade had helped create modern organized crime. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Not every white person who kills a black person is guilty of a crime. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z One was a racketeer who controlled a crime syndicate worth $15 million a year. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Murder convictions tend to receive a tremendous amount of media attention, which feeds the public’s sense that violent crime is rampant and forever on the rise. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If he is convicted of another crime he may be subject to imprisonment as a repeat offender. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z After the shootings he raised a window in his bedroom and removed the screen, then roamed the house rifling dresser drawers and scattering the contents: it was his intention to blame the crime on thieves. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The cover-up was a serious crime: obstruction of justice. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z We baked, we watched crime dramas and designed beaded bracelets. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In fact, nationwide, most women on death row are awaiting execution for a family crime involving an allegation of child abuse or domestic violence involving a male partner. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I don’t think an actual crime has been committed. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Their crimes had been bad enough to send them both to the Tombs. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Barry Goldwater, in his 1964 presidential campaign, aggressively exploited the riots and fears of black crime, laying the foundation for the “get tough on crime” movement that would emerge years later. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And if someone had committed a crime against you, you called the church. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Bongo,” I whispered, “I’m an official crime scene.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Rural whites are often the most punitive, even though they are least likely to be crime victims. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Until crime fell so drastically, no one talked about this theory at all. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z These principles are rooted in an understanding that any movement to end mass incarceration must deal with mass incarceration as a racial caste system, not as a system of crime control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z "If Lady Stark believes I have some crime to answer for, I will go with her and answer for it." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z How could the letter Ms. Hussey was asking them to imagine sound so similar to that one about art and crime? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z This stunning development reflects the dramatic increase in the number and race of those sent to prison for drug crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z "If Lord Eddard were to confess his crime," she said at last, "we would know he had repented his folly." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “That letter was half-buried in your garden. I only got to read the beginning, but it said something about an old crime and art.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I had to face reality: The crime scene had been destroyed by the police, and there could be no useful evidence whatsoever still inside. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z But if the goal here is to explain the drop in crime in the 1990s, imprisonment is certainly one of the key answers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The Illinois senate was hung up in a marathon debate, trying to settle on the provisions of a major crime bill. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Upon reflection, however, the prevalence of white drug crime—including drug dealing—should not be surprising. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “This is actually very good,” she tells me, as if I’ve committed a crime. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Yet these civil penalties, although not considered punishment by our courts, often make it virtually impossible for people who have been convicted of crimes to integrate into the mainstream society and economy upon release. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Clean up graffiti and all of a sudden people who would otherwise commit crimes suddenly don’t. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For one thing, nobody seemed much concerned about crime. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z How do these three rules help us understand teenage smoking, for example, or the phenomenon of word of mouth, or crime, or the rise of a bestseller? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In apartheid South Africa, the penalties for these “crimes” could be as much as ten years in prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The officers were accused of committing war crimes. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Another brief was filed on behalf of former child soldiers whose terrifying behavior after being forced into violent African militias made the crimes of our clients seem much less aggravated by comparison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Besides, Day wasn’t a mercenary in any of his past crimes. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Meant to hold those convicted of the most serious crimes, it has long been considered the most dangerous, most hopeless prison in the United States. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Not enough, that is, to make even a sliver of impact on the fall of crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z When a crime is committed by a black man, it’s mentioned in the first breath: “An African American man was arrested today...” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z That’s because when crime is rising, people clamor for protection, and invariably more money is found for cops. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “I don’t imagine he intends for Balekin to keep the throne long. I think he would consider it some kind of crime against strategy to leave such an obvious move unexploited.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z After the relief had settled in, after people remembered how to go about their lives without the pressing fear of crime, there arose a natural question: just where did all those criminals go? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z If a family member had committed a crime or treason, his blood was considered bad. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps that's my greatest social crime, I've overstayed my hibernation, since there's a possibility that even an invisible man has a socially responsible role to play. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z There were numerous cases of hate crimes against the American Muslim community, particularly Muslim women who wear the hijab. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The white man upon whom he had tried to blame his crime stood before him and he sat waiting to hear angry words. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The new county sheriff dropped even a pretense of investigating the crimes. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I’ll bet you’ve got a lot of theories. Come on, reconstruct the crime. There we were at the tree. Then what happened, Sherlock Holmes?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Younger kids charged with serious crimes go into unit 4, one of two maximum-security units. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z These laws operate collectively to ensure that the vast majority of people convicted of crimes will never integrate into mainstream, white society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Other pieces of evidence also implicated Burt in a crime. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “In case,” he said, “the excellent Mrs. Hubbard should take it into her head to acquire first-hand details of the crime to write to her daughter.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Patrick would get involved, saying that violent crime was a natural consequence of the capitalist system, and then, eventually, the New York skyline would appear on the horizon and we'd all stop talking. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Do you remember Mr. Evans's testimony that they stopped for a "quick bite" after committing the crime? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z The revelations of the arrests and the horror of the crimes held the nation in their grip. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Most juveniles sentenced to life imprisonment without parole had been convicted of homicide crimes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was a proposal to extend the statute of limitations on environmental crimes. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I note all this to avoid thinking of how I almost gave away an even greater crime than the one he’s discovered. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Needless to say, my parents committed that crime. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Conservative politicians who embraced this rhetoric purposefully failed to distinguish between the direct action tactics of civil rights activists, violent rebellions in inner cities, and traditional crimes of an economic or violent nature. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z On the Tuesday nights when the show was broadcast, crime rates fell, and attendance at movie theaters and restaurants dropped. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The jury took just twenty-eight minutes to find Council not guilty of any crime. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As Harry had pointed out, I didn’t have a crime lab at my disposal. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z After the execution, Clinton remarked, “I can be nicked a lot, but no one can say I’m soft on crime.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There is, of course, an official explanation for all of this: crime rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If he did not talk, then they would say he had committed every crime they could think of. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z They kept a police scanner on all the time, and when an accident or fire or crime was called in, an editor would send a reporter to find out what had happened. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “All right, I done something for you. Now you owes. So tell me—what crime did you do? You’re thieves, aincha?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z This is not to say that crime—especially violent crime—does not pose a serious threat in ghetto communities today; it does. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Despite the brutality of the crimes, many whites did not mask their enthusiasm for the lurid story. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “If she didn’t want to, it’d be a crime, I reckon.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z My mom never told me any of the details of the crime—only that the victim was someone Marcus knew in college. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “Possibly,” said Coraline, who was not going to be diverted, “but I am ringing to report a crime.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Hiding Jews was a crime punishable by death, so she was lucky that she wasn’t killed. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But he still put his faith in this fact: No one could hear the evidence and believe that he committed this crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When crime began to fall in the city — as quickly and dramatically as it had in the subways — Bratton and Giuliani pointed to the same cause. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z These results contrast sharply with the reality of drug crime in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Moreover, his attitude toward the crime made it, as he later said, “a personal proposition.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “It appears to be a hate crime,” the officer says. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “You asked me to be your lookout the other night while you committed a crime.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I told the congregation that Walter’s case had taught me that the death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Even though he was thirteen, the judge condemned Ian for living in the streets, for not having good parental supervision, and for his multiple prior arrests for shoplifting and minor property crimes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Brian had become a decorated sergeant detective, supervising a special unit that investigated organized crime. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Although I understand the deprivations our people suffer I must make it clear that the level of crime in the township is unhealthy and must be eliminated as a matter of urgency. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The wealthier neighborhoods in the hills boast good schools, low crime, and views of the bay. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z When a crime is committed, it is the State that must apply the law in a manner that offers redress and that brings the guilty parties to justice. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z It might seem ludicrous to address as large and intractable a problem as white-collar crime through the life of a bagel man. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z No more answering shady Internet requests, and certainly no more consorting with the sons of European crime lords. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “I hadn’t heard about any crime at the park,” Brandon’s mother said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “There were detectives before there were crime labs, you know.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z A hate crime is bias boiled down to its most vile essence. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Because the man had made actual death threats against me and my family—threats that fell under the rubric of hate crimes—the FBI was quickly contacted. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The housing shortage, the schools crisis, unemployment and the crime rate still remain. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The stark and sobering reality is that, for reasons largely unrelated to actual crime trends, the American penal system has emerged as a system of social control unparalleled in world history. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The details of her crime did not hold up under scrutiny, but she paid the ultimate price. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They would put him to death for his crime. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Dylan locked away for his crimes, hopefully for many years to come, whatever connection we share won’t matter for a long time. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “My friend Willie-Jay used to talk about it. He used to say that all crimes were only ‘varieties of theft.’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Old crimes and old triumphs were brought out and dusted. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But when you find out about all the stuff they’ve been through in their childhood and their health problems and what crimes they committed, it becomes totally different. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “It was a perfectly simple question that I asked you, Mademoiselle. I will repeat it. Are you very much distressed that a crime should have been committed on this train?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Great — for the crime of attempted breakfast- making, I got demoted from “beloved firstborn” to “this one.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z One study suggests that the standard crime news “script” is so prevalent and so thoroughly racialized that viewers imagine a black perpetrator even when none exists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But at the same time, we ought not be misled by those who insist that violent crime has driven the rise of this unprecedented system of racial and social control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The F.B.I. not long ago released a report of a shocking rise in crime each successive year since the end of World War II—ten to twelve per cent each year. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Lloyd: What do you think of the little kids that committed the crime? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to scarper away from the crime scene as quick as possible, but a slow queue of traffic'd built up behind a tractor, so we couldn't cross the crossroads yet. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “It is a crime to help Central Americans.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Some people start committing crimes when they’re young and keep on committing them, progressing from burglary to robbery to murder. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “I don’t remember, but I think it was considered a random street crime, a horrible case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. They never arrested anyone.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z “As far as I know, that’s not a crime in this country. Not yet, anyway.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z One could argue this result is a tragic, unforeseeable mistake, and that the goal was always crime control, not the creation of a racial undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But it’s Alan who punishes, who makes me being darker than my brother a crime. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He wanted to make sure she was tough enough on crime. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But as I watched the coverage of the story unfold, I was angered to hear that the Chapel Hill police weren’t considering the murders a hate crime. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z To a Karhider reading our canons, the crime of Judas lies not in his betrayal of Christ but in the act that, sealing despair, denies the chance of forgiveness, change, life: his suicide. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Yet only some of us will be arrested, charged, convicted of a crime, branded a criminal or felon, and ushered into a permanent undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Elijah went on about the crimes of white people, to this endless chorus of “Yes, that’s right.” The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z It is for the few to know that in the great old days of Virginia there were three punishments for high crimes—death, exile to Texas, and imprisonment, in that order. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When someone is convicted of a crime today, their “debt to society” is never paid. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The passage of Prohibition had only compounded the territory’s feeling of lawlessness by encouraging organized crime and creating, in the words of one historian, “the greatest criminal bonanza in American history.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z To the dismay of reformers, Prohibition was turning out to be crime’s best friend. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Unlike street crimes, they do not leave behind a corpse or a broken window. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Or the guy who says it's a crime to waste forests of paper to commemorate something that "never happened." Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Then I start to think of my room like it's a crime scene. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “He is accused of crimes against humanity. You are accused of being his accomplice.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z LeAlan: What were your first thoughts when you heard about this crime? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z What crime would call for such terrible action? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z His calling card is the book More Guns, Less Crime, in which he argues that violent crime has decreased in areas where law-abiding citizens are allowed to carry concealed weapons. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z LeAlan: What went through your mind when you first heard about this crime? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It is extremely unlikely, therefore, that the death penalty, as currently practiced in the United States, exerts any real influence on crime rates. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Sir, I found a piece of a shirt at the crime scene—a shirt that’s way too small to fit the Matherson boy.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The decline in crime that began in the early 1990s was accompanied by a blistering national economy and a significant drop in unemployment. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Something else clearly played a role in reversing New York’s crime epidemic. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Before I was twelve, I would have committed all three of those crimes. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Sleepy little Liechtenstein was shocked by the enormity of the crime. fortuitous. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not so. You see, this crime, it was most probably committed by a woman. The man was stabbed no less than twelve times. Even the chef de train said at once, ‘It is a woman.’ Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z In preparing litigation on behalf of the children we were representing, it was clear that these shocking and senseless crimes couldn’t be evaluated honestly without understanding the lives these children had been forced to endure. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z And if—no, when—they caught me, it would just make my crime worse. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z No wonder the roots of organized crime and criminal organizations such as the American Mafia were tied directly to Prohibition. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I have pledged on my knees to Allah to tell the white man about his crimes and the black man the true teachings of our Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And when he wasn’t hanging out at the scene of the crime, Genie was down at Tess’s, using her Internet, obsessively looking up other ways to capture birds. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Delaying relief would add further injury to a man who had been wrongfully convicted and condemned to death row for a crime he did not commit. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z By reputation, the Overseas park is a nest of crime and crack, and I am hoping at least for some vibrant multicultural street fife. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That I was involved in the cases of teens who'd committed violent crimes was itself ironic. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Your protest partner in crime. Momma told me she saw her hand you that bullhorn on TV. Putting you in danger like that.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z God in His wrath struck down with fire the perpetrators of lesser crimes! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a crime of opportunity, and that one act had cast a shadow over Citra that she hadn’t even realized until she faced the girl today. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The State decided to invoke an unprecedented theory of “transferred intent” to make the crime eligible for the death penalty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z We questioned a number of people we felt might have some knowledge of the crime. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I was called over to the slave cabins—the quarter—to watch Weylin punish a field hand for the crime of answering back. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z So, with all the sleep, my memories, reading my crime story, and the alternation of light and darkness, time passed. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z In fact, employers in most states can deny jobs to people who were arrested but never convicted of any crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There was no sign of theft or crime of any kind. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Similarly, if and when crime rates rise—which seems likely if the nation’s economy continues to sour—nothing would deter politicians from making black and brown men, once again, their favorite whipping boys. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I’d slide this awful story off my shoulders, flatten it, sketch out our crimes like a failed battle plan and shake it in the faces of my neighbors, who are wary of me already. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He has, as a consequence of his crime, not only forfeited his liberty, but all his personal rights except those which the law in its humanity accords to him. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I couldn’t accept that such a malevolent crime might go unpunished. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z My earlier break, the one I’d committed so many crimes to preserve, had been a complete bust, with no other human around but a management-level woman from accounting. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew from personal experience how crime existed only to the degree that the law cooperated with it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In Hoover’s world, only men were supposed to fight crime and keep their country safe. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “If there is already crime in the thought of killing, why does the deed of killing not follow with ease?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I do wish you could center your big brain on the crimes we ourselves as a people are responsible for.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Would you like me to tell you your crimes?” says Tori. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The local media were eager to join the prosecutors in criticizing the 60 Minutes piece because it implicated their coverage, which had largely presented only the prosecution's theory and characterization of Walter and the crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The idioms for revenge are “report a crime” and “report to five families.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When the crime rate began falling in the early 1990s, it did so with such speed and suddenness that it surprised everyone. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But we weren’t going to get the average—not for our crime. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The old understanding of handling crime epidemics leads inevitably to a preoccupation with defensive measures against crime. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I hear the police radio calling them away to another crime scene. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Her husband was serving time in the county jail across the street for being drunk or some petty crime like that. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The extraordinarily high rates of poverty, crime, and unemployment in Chester intersected with the worst-ranked public school system among Pennsylvania's 501 districts. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In places like Osage County, where there was no coroner trained in forensics and no crime laboratory, poisoning was a perfect way to commit murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Someone had murdered his beloved and done so in a way that made it look like the prince had committed the crime. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Then she asks you not to believe Mrs. Moore, who has never committed a crime in her life. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z The Taylor Hardin Secure Medical Facility in Tuscaloosa did all of the diagnostic and assessment work for courts managing people accused of crimes who might be incompetent to stand trial due to mental illness. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Perhaps abortion and crime are merely correlated and not causal. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The crime drop was, in the language of economists, an “unintended benefit” of legalized abortion. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z De Roos was supposed to have seen her at a news conference last year on subway crime, held down inside the station where she sold tokens. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like a laundry crime has been committed. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In Anna’s case, the doctors had not reported any indications of this, and from all the descriptions of the crime scene there had been no trail of blood from the car down to the creek. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The Power of Context says you don’t have to solve the big problems to solve crime. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, I could get away with it, but certainly we all have the potential to commit the crime. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I felt a hot stab of shame, like somehow it was my own crime he was describing. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Chaplain,” he continued, looking up, “we accuse you also of the commission of crimes and infractions we don’t even know about yet. Guilty or innocent?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Numerous studies have shown that prosecutors interpret and respond to identical criminal activity differently based on the race of the person charged with the crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Before this trial the newspapers and the prosecution said that this boy had committed other crimes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Murder of the soul was a terrible, unnatural crime, hideous to think about. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I was conscious of the unfairness of accusing a man of hideous crimes when he could not answer questions or defend himself. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “All those crimes, and, like, all anybody can focus on is a sex scandal.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z There weren’t heavy drugs and crime like there is now. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He had joined the police force because he wanted to solve crimes and arrest criminals. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He moaned the whole night through as if he had, in fact, been guilty of some heinous crime. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z This is nothing but a thought exercise—obviously there is no right answer—but it may help clarify the impact of abortion on crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He would not raise his fist against the Lombard, for it would be a serious crime for a Jew to strike a Christian. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z A Jewish woman wouldn't want to draw attention to herself for any reason, even to report a crime. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z How they would, each and all, abhor me and hunt me from the world, did they know my unhallowed acts and the crimes which had their source in me! Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z “At least in all the recent speeches I’ve seen, he’s been in the mansion. Even before the rebels got here. I imagine he became more vigilant after Finnick aired his crimes.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The crime of the Japanese erased all lesser sinning. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This in itself would have been a crime, but it was worse than simple murder, for Iofur learned later that the other bear was his own father. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z These stark racial disparities cannot be explained by rates of drug crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Some kind of action where there’s a scene of the crime, a sequence of events with anomalies or gaps you can see, and empirical proof laid out on a white-clothed table. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I told the police what I saw—Johnson running from the scene of the crime. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Actually it’s a show I like, about cops and lawyers solving crimes and stuff, where everything gets settled in the end. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Once again the newly self-titled overlord of crime had outsmarted a couple of mere animals. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z A most sacred obligation was bound up with a most atrocious crime. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Judges tend to imagine the police have a sixth sense—or some kind of special police training—that qualifies them to identify people who are guilty of drug crimes without any evidence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But there is frighteningly little evidence that his strategy was the crime panacea that he and the media deemed it. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It was crime that led the nightly news and the national conversation. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Sure enough, one out of seven arrestees had an outstanding warrant for a previous crime, and one out of twenty was carrying a weapon of some sort. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had learned that no crime was beyond atonement, that even he, defiled by a mother’s murder, could be made clean again. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Mass incarceration as we know it would not exist today but for the racialization of crime in the media and political discourse. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He knew that I consorted with Hamlet What if he began to suspect that Hamlet had revealed the king’s crime to Horatio and me? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He was the leader of an international crime ring. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The friend with Jeremy was also in the restroom at the time, but he left and did nothing to stop this crime. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Surely in America a whole segment of decent souls could not stand by and allow such massive crimes to be committed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It listed the names, ages, and crimes of Shin’s father and of his father’s eleven brothers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “That tie. It’s the worst crime Melvin ever committed. Rest his precious soul.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Conservatives in the 1970s and 1980s sought to appeal to the racial biases and economic vulnerabilities of poor and working-class whites through racially coded rhetoric on crime and welfare. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The last thing I need is for TJ to wake up, go to my room, and see this crime scene. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z But we found a half-dozen people and security records that proved that Mr. Hinton was locked inside a secure supermarket warehouse working as a night laborer fifteen miles away at the time of the crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I was going to be flogged for the “crime” of losing a button. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z An Osage leader said that Hale “should have been hanged for his crimes,” and members of the tribe were convinced that the board’s decision was the last vestige of Hale’s political influence. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Paid next to nothing, people convicted of crimes were effectively enslaved in perpetuity, as they were unable to earn enough to pay off their debts. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z His background of poverty and petty crime gave him insight into the demons that haunted other poor blacks, and left him with some habits that were out of character for a devout Black Muslim. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z His lawyer argued that when Wes was questioned by Baltimore police the day after the crime, before he was announced as a suspect, he was calm, a clear sign of his innocence. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The federalization of drug crime violated the conservative tenet of states’ rights and local control, as street crime was typically the responsibility of local law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If she had she would not have committed her crime. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She shouldn’t have entered the tomb, she shouldn’t have strayed into the sacred places of the dead when she was so stained and tainted by her crimes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The crimes of others are a secret language among us. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Years later, when the tribe created its first court system, which adjudicated mostly minor crimes, he was elected one of the three judges. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z All crimes had been forgiven in order to pad the audience for the big game against Salem, which had to have already started. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z The time had not yet come to include him and his crimes in this picture of global struggle. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Studies have shown that joblessness—not race or black culture—explains the high rates of violent crime in poor black communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “When someone commits a crime, he is tried, not murdered.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z "Well, it was an outrageous, tragic crime, so anger is understandable," I replied. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Slowly, we are working our way towards that treacherous past, the horrible crime, the waste of young lives, the throbbing heart of the wound. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even an amateur lawbreaker like me knows not to return to the scene of the crime. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In fact, he was soon shouting that if she were older, he’d have to keep her there—that it was a crime, what she had done. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shh .. . don’t talk so loud. It is a crime to speak against the Angkar. If the soldiers hear you they will take you away and kill you.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "Arresting people for their beliefs is a crime," Helmuth says out loud. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z But I say nothing and do not confess to the crime. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite similar crime rates, each government chose to impose different levels of punishment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They stole from one another, of course, and enjoyed terrorizing one another, but their crimes were minor compared to those of people. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z So sir we see the last of this dog Dunmore, blacker than hell, whose crimes shall be recalled in all ages and he be called cursed by all men. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Someone had to investigate the crime, catch the bad guy, and put together the case that would get him convicted. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Because he wasn’t committing a crime that afternoon. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Your crimes will be washed away, your debts forgiven. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They regarded civil disobedience not as a form of protest but as a crime, and were perturbed by the growing partnership between Africans and Indians. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Numbly Harry thought of how the Dursleys had once shut him up, locked him away, kept him out of sight, all for the crime of being a wizard. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Instead, crime reports were sensationalized and offered as further evidence of the breakdown in lawfulness, morality, and social stability in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And the American and Soviet police had publicly stated that Mercerism reduced crime by making citizens more concerned about the plight of their neighbors. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z "You should. Your crimes, will have earned you a place of torment in the deepest of the seven hells, if the gods are just." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In detective stories, when the sleuth revisits the scene of the crime, he nearly always finds a clue that has been overlooked by the ordinary police. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Violet agrees to join me at my parents’ clinic so I can document the aftermath of the crime. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “Evidence? How could his ID be used as evidence? You know his name. Why would you need his ID? He didn’t commit a crime with his wallet.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He disclosed that he’d never really been hired to solve the murder of Anna Brown; in fact, he’d been asked to conceal Bryan’s whereabouts on the night of the crime. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z This trend was driven in part by an expansion in the rights of people accused of crimes—a long overdue expansion, some would argue. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z As argued above, an increase in the number of police, regardless of new strategies, has been proven to reduce crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Not a regular one either, a capital crime. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z My main crime was not removing my shoes when I entered the house after 9:00 p.m., the hour at which her husband went to sleep. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z They didn’t even photograph the crime scene, which, in any case, had already been contaminated by the many observers. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But over the decade following the riot, gangs and organized crime continued to operate unchecked by the mayor, angering enough citizens that Thompson was voted out in 1931, never to hold office again. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There was our crime—Lola’s, Marshall’s, mine—and from the second version onward, I set out to describe it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Today, the political fanfare and the vehement, racialized rhetoric regarding crime and drugs are no longer necessary. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I go back to that question,” he says, referring to whether he spent enough time in jail for his crime. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They were free to determine both the crime and the sentence, and references to cellmates were strongly encouraged. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Lost kids, lost dogs, a few motor vehicle violations, but no crime.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Black men, they say, have much higher rates of violent crime; that’s why so many of them are locked up. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It’s creepy, like I’m looking at a crime scene. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The truth, however, is that rates and patterns of drug crime do not explain the glaring racial disparities in our criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Once again, vagrancy laws and other laws defining activities such as “mischief” and “insulting gestures” as crimes were enforced vigorously against blacks. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The crime rate in fact began to fall—so unexpectedly and dramatically and thoroughly that now, from the distance of several years, it is almost hard to recall the crushing grip of that crime wave. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Thus a fingerprint left at the scene of a crime is an Evidence-Index, an indication, or token, that someone in particular has been there. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At the very least, I could find evidence connecting him to Mr. Whitby or proof of his crimes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z These crimes included the torture and murder of twelve million people—six million Jews and six million non-Jews who were deemed enemies of the Reich. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Except that now, for having accused Ravi of an unspecified crime he hadn’t committed, I was as good as dead. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They had before them the basest of crimes, a crime made worse than sordid by the fact that they were dealing with a monster, a man without morals. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z On that day, crime was just about at its peak in the United States. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In addition to war and crime and cruelty, we have to worry about environmental problems—about pollution, the growing hole in the ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, and global warming. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Miss Duncan is pretty enough; I tend to think she would make a fine revenant, possessing the bodies of young women and using them to avenge crimes of passion. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Local police ignored the obvious evidence that the death was a hate crime and hypothesized that Donald must have been involved in drug dealing, which his mother adamantly denied. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The problem with this abbreviated analysis is that violent crime is not responsible for mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A recent audit discovered that the police in Atlanta were radically underreporting crime since the early 1990s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z This was true: and while he spoke my very conscience and reason turned traitors against me, and charged me with crime in resisting him. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z They got DNA evidence from the crime scene tested again, and the results showed it didn’t belong to this guy. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He was no outlaw, bound to take the black or pay the penalty for his crimes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “There wasn’t enough evidence to charge him with a crime,” JT explained, “but my father made him join the army. He’s only seventeen, so my dad had to sign an extra form, but he’s gone.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Again, I asked Mr. de Klerk why no action by the police had been taken in the aftermath of these crimes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z These types of alleged crimes did not really occur four years ago. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A 2005 report by the Government Accountability Office concluded the program may have contributed to a 1 percent reduction in crime—at a cost of $8 billion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Hate crimes against Muslims in America have more than quadrupled since 2001, and everyday activities like traveling through airports are fraught with tension. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z My father spent two months doing hard labour on a white man’s potato farm for his pass crimes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “It means the crime is deemed an accident,” Rafi’s smooth, lilting voice says behind me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z However a person feels about abortion, a question is likely to come to mind: what are we to make of the trade-off of more abortion for less crime? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z This possible growth depends on a number of factors we cannot control, including crime rates and sentencing patterns in various jurisdictions and acceptance of privatization. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “But I have arrived at no conclusion. The elucidation of crime is your metier, not mine, my friend.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, to give you an example—we find a woman’s handkerchief. Did a woman drop it? Or did a man, committing the crime, say to himself ‘I will make this look like a woman’s crime. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The Communists had talked to him until they had given him new eyes with which to see his own crime. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z This sentimental business about abolishing the death penalty simply encourages crime. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Stiff punishment, indeed, for a minor drug offense—especially for his children, who are innocent of any crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z "No, Judge. That's not going to happen. These are the investigators who figured out this heinous crime, and we need them in court to present our case." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The way they showed it in health films, commercials, and episodes on crime stories, drugs turned you into something or someone else. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z She had intended the money to pay for gatherings of Vermeer scholars to work on attribution and on the crime. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z “Hugo, it wasn’t your fault” I stroked my little brother’s hair and told him about crimes that had happened without anyone knowing intruders were in the house. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z And so-called honor killings were still viewed as minor crimes in Sharia courts. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I thought of the victims of violent crime and the survivors of murdered loved ones, and how we’ve pressured them to recycle their pain and anguish and give it back to the offenders we prosecute. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A slow killing gives a criminal time to regret his crimes and think of the right words to prove he can change. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Made to confess their crimes against the people? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The picketers didn’t want to be pardoned by the government for something they didn’t believe was a crime. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z And it is this new form of life that has grown up here in our midst that puzzles us, that expresses itself, like a weed growing from under a stone, in terms we call crime. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Of course, once they were legitimate they found it not to their liking, and returned almost immediately to crime. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z This crime has wronged one of the worlds greatest painters. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z There are many different types of crime, and violent crime tends to provoke the most visceral and punitive response. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Bryan recalled that a week after the shooting he had returned to the scene of the crime with Mollie and her family to identify Anna’s rotting corpse. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Can we envision a system that would enforce drug laws almost exclusively among young white men and largely ignore drug crime among young black men? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Despite the poor dogs, despite my stupidity and grandiosity, despite our crime. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Within a year Gnadenhütten would be the scene of one of the most outrageous war crimes of that period. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “The true history of the most baffling series of murders in the annals of crime,” a handbill for the show said. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Please, I shouldn’t be here. I committed no crime. But no one knows I’m here. I haven’t gotten a phone call. My wife thinks I’m dead. Can you call her?” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z In fact, it seemed like black people were solely responsible for crime in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Why would he ever admit to the crime? Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z It is as though someone else I knew of had lived by hustling and crime. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The state had not proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the crime the defendant had been charged with had in fact occurred. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Only a small minority are rearrested for violent crimes; the vast majority are rearrested for property offenses, drug offenses, and offenses against the public order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He had masqueraded at the hospital for eight years conducting competency evaluations on people accused of crimes before his fraud was uncovered. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “We know that you cannot give us much information bearing on the crime itself, but you may have seen or heard something that, while conveying, nothing to you, may be valuable to us. You understand?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Day after day the newspapers increased the tension by printing frightening, exaggerated, and mostly false stories of crimes committed by blacks on whites. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “There was a break-in at the Kent household. Your nephew was found in the immediate area of that crime. We want to ask him about that—as well as about tonight’s attempted break-in.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I submit to you that there's no need to go beyond these two when you look for the perpetrators of this crime. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z “I let him go,” Peach repeated, his voice gathering a hard edge to it, like he was a murderer and was admitting to the crime of the century. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z As the Justice Policy Institute has observed, “the Clinton Administration’s ‘tough on crime’ policies resulted in the largest increases in federal and state inmate populations of any president in American history.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Those of you who resisted us will be tried and punished according to your crimes.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Homicide fell at a greater rate during the 1990s than any other sort of crime, and a number of reliable studies have shown virtually no link between the economy and violent crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The study reviewed seven hundred thousand criminal cases that were matched by crime and criminal history of the defendant. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Masks, the only gang remaining after Father’s war on crime, had set off a bomb in a shopping center. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “These terrorists are the antithesis of Islam. They’re not Muslim. Violence has no place in religion, and the terrorists are responsible for their own crimes, not the religion and not us.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z His friend was in jail waiting to be put on trial for the crime of helping the Reds. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Let me describe this stereotyped situation: A crime wave is sweeping a city and citizens are clamoring for police action. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “To atone for this crime, you will drink the water that cleansed us from our labors.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z She had looked guilty, as if she was committing a serious crime. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Even if the analysis is limited to felonies—thus excluding extremely minor crimes and misdemeanors—nonviolent offenses predominate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Unlike conventional police departments, the Guard’s mandate explicitly emphasized the novel idea of preventing crime rather than merely arresting wrongdoers after the fact. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z To seal the crime, frame it with the victim’s curse, close his fate with the magic of naming. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The waves of recurring crime, the silly fads and crazes, the quicksilver changes in public taste, the hysteria and fears—all of these had long been mysteries to me. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I have committed a crime, but in my heart I know that my theft is a gift. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The crime was sensationalized by the local media, which lauded the police and prosecutor for coming to the aid of a defenseless infant. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Well, I believe it’s a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sir, I know you’re a very important, very busy man, so I just have one quick question: If I were a book on true crimes in the state of Ohio, where would you shelve me?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z So from place to place he went until he saw that there was no kindness left for him in his own land, and his crime would not be forgiven.* The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “If we want the free folk to fight beside us, we must pardon their past crimes as we would for our own.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z After Nick, behind Bernabe’s back, had derisively crossed himself, he walked around the store, describing the crime. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One senator denounced the various “illegal plots, counterplots, espionage, decoys, dictographs” that were being used not to “detect and prosecute crime but...to shield profiteers, bribe takers and favorites.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But he stressed that he had ho regrets about his crimes, “because it was all a result of what happens to thousands upon thousands of black men in the white man’s Christian world.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Our house might as well be wrapped in yellow crime scene tape—that’s how much of a big deal she’s made over the years about keeping people away. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He found order in a scramble of clues and, as one author put it, “turned brutal crimes—the vestiges of the beast in man—into intellectual puzzles.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Thousands of women have been sentenced to lengthy terms in prison for writing bad checks or for minor property crimes that trigger mandatory minimum sentences. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z After all, crime didn’t just slowly ebb in New York as conditions gradually improved. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His crime seemed natural; he felt that all of his life had been leading to something like this. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Their crime was bad enough, but the lies proved an evil that not even the whip could remove. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Many black men, the victims—in fact most black men—would like to be able to forgive, to forget, the crimes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z With felonies — serious crimes — on the subway system at an all-time high, Bratton decided to crack down on fare- beating. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His crime, unemployment, was one of the worst a black man could commit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “They know he made a wrong delivery. I want you to make them rectify their crime.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Some Eurasian prisoners, guilty of war crimes, were to be hanged in the Park that evening, Winston remembered. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Once blackness and crime, especially drug crime, became conflated in the public consciousness, the “criminalblackman,” as termed by legal scholar Kathryn Russell, would inevitably become the primary target of law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I assumed that if you committed a crime, you got the punishment you deserved, and innocent people would always be proven innocent. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He’d had no disciplinary violations and the staff at Chad had described him as motivated to participate in treatment programs and remorseful about his crime. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The one thing that is clear from the survey data and ethnographic research is that African Americans in ghetto communities experience an intense “dual frustration” regarding crime and law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z New York City was a clear innovator in police strategies during the 1990s crime drop, and it also enjoyed the greatest decline in crime of any large American city. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Your Daddy’s from Israel, eh? It’s no crime to be Jewish, Latito. Don’t be ashamed of it.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the most compelling incentives yet invented have been put in place to deter crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Mother saw he was remembering the long war against crime when he was a young officer. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z In the previous fifteen years, violent crime had risen 80 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I go back to the crime report from the Central Hospital. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Of course those communities are suffering from serious crime and dysfunction today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Blacks are much more likely to live near poor segregated areas. They are much less insulated from crime and other manifestations of social disarray that grow from racial exclusion.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It was their way of explaining what they believed was white madness— crimes planned and executed in a truly lunatic manner against total strangers. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, it was hard to find fault with Mazoe, and the crime rate was certainly low. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z If Prescott is right, in an age of nuclear weapons and effective contraceptives, child abuse and severe sexual repression are crimes against humanity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Listen, and accept. He lives, so far. I don’t know how your father will punish him for his crime.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Any crime they committed was not investigated, giving them the power to arrest, harm, imprison, and kill without consequence. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The bill created dozens of new federal capital crimes, mandated life sentences for some “three-strikers,” and authorized more than $16 billion for state prison grants and expansion of state and local police forces. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Behind them, the voice over the megaphone called out, “If you have any other crimes you would like to confess to the Ministry of Silence, this would be a good time to do that.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I cried, reacting as if I were a convict and my mother a judge condemning me to death for a crime I didn’t commit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then it has nothing to do with the crime at all.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Compare him to Mr. Cruz, who admitted taking part in this crime, who admitted that to become a member of his gang, he had to slash a stranger in the face. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z The ubiquity of illegal drug activity, combined with its consensual nature, requires a far more proactive approach by law enforcement than what is required to address ordinary street crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Frontier lawmen, in particular, were primarily gunfighters and trackers; they were expected to deter crimes and to apprehend a known gunman alive if possible, dead if necessary. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Ordinary crime, after all, preys on the weak—on little old ladies rather than on husky athletes—and criminals often make willing and able executioners of defenseless people. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I used to love watching those sleazy crime dramas on Saturday afternoon TV. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z When he’s not fighting crime, Bruce dresses like a normal adult. advocate. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s unholy what Dusty is doing, a crime against nature,” Dad went on. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z These images would have nasty comments under them from people saying stuff like, Looks like he’d rob a store, and If he’d pull his pants up, maybe he would’ve gotten away with the crime! All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As Weaver notes, “rather than fading, the segregationists’ crime-race argument was reframed, with a slightly different veneer,” and eventually became the foundation of the conservative agenda on crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Thus shielded by madness and metaphor, I boldly told him that I knew of his crime: pouring poison into King Hamlet’s ears. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Ever since I first came to the hospital more than ten years ago, she’s been the respiratory therapist here, slipping candy to me and the other CFers, like my partner in crime Poe. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z But for some reason tens of thousands of those people suddenly stopped committing crimes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Poor and minority victims of crime experienced additional victimization by the system itself. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Criminology was still primitive: Emmett grabbed his gun, canvassed any witnesses to the crime, then mounted his horse and went in pursuit. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It seems that lately there’s been more violent crimes committed by kids. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The talk was always the same, of the Turks and their brutality, of Venizelos and his mistakes, of King Constantine and his return, and of the unavenged crime of Smyrna burned. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Although not a single white person was ever taken into custody for crimes related to the rioting, 122 blacks were arrested and scheduled for trial. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The deserter knows his life is forfeit if he is taken, so he will not flinch from any crime, no matter how vile or cruel: "The pin, lad," the big man said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Cops are busy solving real crimes. A bunch of underage queer kids is the last thing they care about. Not to say you’re queer or anything. I meant the rest of us,” she adds. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Time and again he tried to drive home the idea that crime really begins in the slums, and that prison itself can’t cure it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s important to remember that once your adjustment-of-status application is pending, you will not be subjected to random deportation unless you commit a crime. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z At the very top of his list was crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “They said he’d escaped, but our parents didn’t, and would have to pay for his crimes. Doha, you have to help me, please! I have to find them.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z White society hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime the white man has perpetrated on the black man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He was again asked what he thought about my crime. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z "Now, child, you will tell me what happened. Tell it all, and tell it true. It is a great crime to lie to a king." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She tells him that parents can do that in the United States, even if children haven’t committed a crime. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Like you’re a criminal, accused of stealing cookies,” Nephew Shawn says, stupid Nephew Shawn who actually thinks stealing cookies is a crime. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Worm gagged and began to cry, which was seen as a tacit admission of guilt; the criminal who couldn’t face his own crime. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Sergeant Caputo shoved his sleeves up farther on his forearms and said, “The penthouse is a crime scene. It’s off-limits until I say otherwise. Are we all clear?” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Because they were a religious minority, Jews often served as scapegoats for crimes they never committed. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z And the crime rate continued to fall as an entire generation came of age minus the children whose mothers had not wanted to bring a child into the world. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Most people imagine that the explosion in the U.S. prison population during the past twenty-five years reflects changes in crime rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I wanted to know why Marcus committed his crime, but I was scared to ask. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The gist of what he was saying, if I understood him correctly, was that my crime was premeditated. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Ultimately, what this case is about is whether you believe people who are admitted participants in this crime and who are saving their own hides. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z That is what makes this aging-of-the-population theory of crime reduction so appealingly tidy: since people mellow out as they get older, more older people must lead to less crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z They knew every little scandal and some very big crimes. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z When Master Williams spoke again, she turned to a man at the side of the courtroom and asked, “Has either of these boys been charged with a crime before?” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z He does not possess the humility to admit his guilt, to try and atone for his crimes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Did he believe he could conceal his crime behind an apparent kindness, behind this show of being the good shepherd? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The book was about all the positive things that had come out of this terrible crime. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z They were ghosts themselves, caught between two worlds: the reality of their crimes, and the hereafter denied them for those crimes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “You can bet the She Elephant would be punished for her crimes. Why should the Mellower’s mother be any different?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It was an audacious crime, a troubling sign of the violence that felt like it was closing in on her no matter how far she moved away from the center of the city. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Since it wasn't really a crime we didn't get charged with anything. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was no crime to find oneself attracted to another, she wrote, or to believe what one felt was love. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He regrets his failed life, his crimes against the children of Tartarus! The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I thought about his family and about the victim’s family and the tragedy the crime created for them. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z To begin with, it is extremely unlikely that a strategy based purely on costs, crime rates, and the wisdom of drug treatment will get us back even to the troubling incarceration rates of the 1970s. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There was so much in that word: strength, resilience, luck, along with the shadow of whatever crime or cruelty had been survived. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It’s no excuse that what they did was legal at the time: their crimes are retroactive. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z In it she confessed to crimes she could not possibly have committed and admitted faults far beyond her capacity. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “It also means your very existence is a crime.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z But, hey!Joy is not a crime, though some people make it seem so. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A verdict of guilty in a capital case required a complete proof of guilt, for example the testimony of two witnesses who had seen the crime occur, or a confession. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That was Joanna’s crime, decided Francie—not that she had been bad, but that she had not been smart enough to get the boy to the church. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At this point, people seemed uninterested in the truth surrounding the crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There wasn’t any hard evidence linking the couple to the crime, or any witnesses able to identify either party. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re sure it was that same day? His crime took place on October 26. It sounds like police believe the victim was killed in the late afternoon.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z If pushed a little farther, he might have taken to crime—because that was what was expected of him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And for a real kicker, ask them how many geeks are arrested for violent crimes and misdemeanors when compared to popular athletes. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It had to be the thrashing of kitchen hands for the crime of churning butter at a leisurely clip. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “The intentional and callous nature of the crime is shocking and will not be tolerated in our community.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The crime rate went up, and there was rioting. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z This fact, he points out, can be seen most clearly by putting crime and punishment in comparative perspective. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z From En-gland and Europe, the United States had inherited a system of mainly corporal punishment for crimes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z O'BRIEN You told him that he had better participate in the crime or you would hurt him? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z The resulting legislation was once again extraordinarily punitive, this time extending far beyond traditional criminal punishments and including new “civil penalties” for people convicted of drug crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Blacks committed crimes because of internal personality flaws such as disrespect. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Celia has judged 193 cases since she was elected to the People’s Court, from petty thievery and family disputes to more serious crimes of medical malpractice, arson, and counterrevolutionary activities. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He had committed—would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper—the essential crime that contained all others in itself. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “It’s no crime to be in the woods on a spring afternoon,” Henry said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Black-on-black crime” is jargon, violence to language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who built the streets and sold red ink by the barrel. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z As a young woman, she had played a key role in code breaking during World War I. She later cracked the codes of American mobsters, smashing their crime gangs. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The “box” she refers to is the question on job applications in which applicants are asked to check “yes” or “no” if they have ever been convicted of a crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Did he commit some crime? Should I be ashamed of him?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z This weak link is made even weaker by glancing back to a recent decade, the 1960s, when the economy went on a wild growth spurt—as did violent crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Like most Americans, when I was in school, I never read about the murders in any books; it was as if these crimes had been excised from history. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Or did that line mean blow the whistle in the colloquial sense, as in “to reveal a secret or alert someone to a crime”? Either way, it didn’t make any sense to me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “I do — Father says it’s a crime if I’m not picked to play for my House, and I must say, I agree. Know what House you’ll be in yet?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z ‘You don’t understand. Patricide is the worst crime a Roman can commit. It’s unforgivable.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z If a criminal thinks his potential victim may be armed, he may be deterred from committing the crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The “social pathologies” of the poor, particularly street crime, illegal drug use, and delinquency, were redefined by conservatives as having their cause in overly generous relief arrangements. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It is not uncommon for people to receive prison sentences of more than fifty years for minor crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z "You wish to confess your crimes, we are told." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She pulled a book from the shelf where Victor kept his well-thumbed crime novels. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z "Let's go down to the police station and see what crimes they have for us." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z If his plea is simply guilty, then the State demands the death penalty for these black crimes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z And shooting a child in cold blood is a terrible crime that cannot go unpunished. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z In one important way, the Romanian abortion story is a reverse image of the American crime story. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z First, the drop in crime in New York began in 1990. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It sounds as if I have done some crime! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer: yes indeed, additional police substantially lower the crime rate. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z As is putting someone not yet convicted of a crime on death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It’s rather like a medical version of the maps police departments put up on their walls, with pins marking where crimes have occurred. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Specifically, Nye hoped to find a Zenith portable radio believed to have been stolen from the Clutter house on the night of the crime, but he had no luck with that. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Wade was hitting its late teen years—the years during which young men enter their criminal prime—the rate of crime began to fall. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Now this criminal of ours is predestinate to crime also; he, too, have child-brain, and it is of the child to do what he have done. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The teacher's reaction led me to believe that these mistakes were capital crimes in the country of France. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z His crime was an anchor weighing him safely in time; it added to him a certain confidence which his gun and knife did not. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z One evening, a neighbor who lived a few doors down from my uncle s house was listening to a pirate radio station that accused the new government of committing crimes against civilians. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “That seems to give us the time of the crime very exactly.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Stanton was determined to preserve the scene of the crime. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When he turned to sit back down, I was far from the scene if the crime, circling around the rear of the room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He insisted that more and more crimes be confessed, and Matt soon found himself repeating the same sins. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z One might expect that I, being at that time perfectly innocent of any crime against either Bunny or humanity, would not myself be a target of this ongoing sniper fire. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Hundreds more have been released after being proved innocent of noncapital crimes through DNA testing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The guys had vacated the place as if leaving the scene of a crime, strangely subdued. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the most dramatic effect of legalized abortion, however, and one that would take years to reveal itself, was its impact on crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Later I came awake with a sudden start, remembering the fright and tension that had accompanied my foray into crime. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The effect of this revolving-door incarceration for economic crimes spread fear among people who made their living by trading. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In a country where the writing of political slogans on walls was considered a serious crime, talking about political matters was tantamount to treason, punishable by hanging, if you were black. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I can see Patrice is as relieved as I am to hear Ms. Simon speak so forcefully and call it a hate crime. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “What were their crimes?” she shouts at us, pushing her face close to ours. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But I doubt the crime scene photographer was so rushed that he would take such a bad set of photos. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Until this point, Zeitoun had not been charged with a crime. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Based upon your examination, do you have an opinion as to whether or not Richard Eugene Hickock knew right from wrong at the time of the commission of the crime?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z This complicity is perfectly understandable, for the threat posed by crime—particularly violent crime—is real, not imagined. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Prosecutors admit that they routinely charge people with crimes for which they technically have probable cause but which they seriously doubt they could ever win in court. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The fact that so many black and brown men are rounded up for drug crimes that go largely ignored when committed by whites is unseen. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She thought she had the last word on the matter and that it was over until they returned home, where, no doubt Scythe Faraday would inflict some annoying but fair punishment that fit the crime. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Within the half hour Briony would commit her crime. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The Court's decision meant that no child accused of any crime could ever again be automatically sentenced to die in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “There is no reason for them to get into that. What those fellows did was no crime. They ought to get a medal for going after Ellsberg.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “At such time as the Court may indicate, I shall offer evidence and put witnesses upon the stand to testify that this defendant is sane and is responsible for these bloody crimes. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Saying mass incarceration is an abysmal failure makes sense, though, only if one assumes that the criminal justice system is designed to prevent and control crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Mostly they were men from the Witness Protection Program who were in organized crime, had snitched, and were on their way somewhere else. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “You saw your father. He is being remolded through labor. We have evidence that he has committed a serious counterrevolutionary crime.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Were you in any way involved with the crime that we are discussing here? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z I know how hard it is to imagine that what is now humanity’s highest calling was once considered a crime. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The longer I spent in Sing Sing, in fact, the easier it was to imagine anybody, anywhere, committing practically any crime. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Whether it was Cuba, Russia, or the United States, whether about the nature of crime, money, or bureaucracies—or human nature in general, including how many people really belonged in prison—their views rarely matched. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z While I do think certain individuals are disposed to crime because of their genetic inheritance or an abusive upbringing, I am convinced that apartheid turned many otherwise law-abiding citizens into criminals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In that moment I understood the pain that accompanied crime and I hoped that I would never have to feel it again. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was guilty of a terrible crime when he was young, and he could never forgive himself for it. He believed this last act would make up for everything.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If this is oathbreaking, the crime is mine and mine alone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A failing TB control system had led to many uncompleted therapies; rising crime had led to overcrowded prisons. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It’s called a crime against humanity because all humans co-own the responsibility never to forget it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The bed linens, no longer crisp and white, a crime punishable by a whipping if the mess had been caused by anyone but Momma. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The problem was that Bobby was a Holocaust denier, which is a crime in Germany. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The fact that some black people endorse harsh responses to crime is best understood as a form of complicity with mass incarceration—not support for it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A charismatic police officer, investigator, or prosecutor struggles with his own demons while heroically trying to solve a horrible crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z So while a strong 1990s economy might have seemed, on the surface, a likely explanation for the drop in crime, it almost certainly didn’t affect criminal behavior in any significant way. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Despite all the attention paid to rogue companies like Enron, academics know very little about the practicalities of white-collar crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z "It was indeed a crime most terrible—in the eyes of the king and the queen mother." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Also, a necklace was found at the scene of the crime that had Wes’s DNA on it. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He was remembering the letter about crime and art that Petra had found there and then lost. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Pomp asked him of the sea’s lore, and he told us tales of sea-waifs in cradles of kelp, and the glowing corposants that crawl ship’s spars when guilty men keep crimes embosomed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Most people in the village don’t believe the accusation, either. But why does Aycliffe put your name to the crime?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z And I, the only witness for the defense, knew neither the extent of his guilt nor the nature of his crime. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In the past, the criminal justice system, as punitive as it may have been during various wars on crime and drugs, affected only a relatively small percentage of the population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Punishment in our house was called the “Big Chop,” and it was always fitted to the crime and doled out immediately. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z So how should we look at teenagers who commit bias crimes? The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “So trying to come to America from the wrong country is a crime?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z In the training films, the suspects always caved in and confessed to their crimes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, studies have shown that an unemployment decline of 1 percentage point accounts for a 1 percent drop in nonviolent crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Most of Day’s past crimes involve saving people. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z We were less and less convinced that the man he was accusing of committing the crime was involved. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Every day, Vuyisile Mini, who years later was hanged by the government for political crimes, led the group in singing freedom songs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z While the HIV-infected Haitians had committed no crime, they were nevertheless treated like prisoners. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z People choose to commit crimes, and that’s why they are locked up or locked out, we are told. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z These crimes included the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh’s baby and the Kansas City Massacre, where several lawmen were killed in a shootout while transporting the Al Spencer Gang member Frank “Jelly” Nash. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Bootlegging was a serious crime and those caught during raids were handed huge fines. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And the others whose names I do not remember for crimes I do not know. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But the hood taught me that everyone has different notions of right and wrong, different definitions of what constitutes crime, and what level of crime they’re willing to participate in. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “But there’s something else I done, many years ago, another crime, and they don’t even know of it. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z If that person really did see Marcus when the crime was happening, then I would know for sure whether he was telling the truth. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “Not that it’s not a horrible crime,” one explained, “but it’s also a crime to try a child as an adult.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Now that I was declared a son of Poseidon, one of the Big Three gods who weren’t supposed to have kids, I figured it was a crime for me just to be alive. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Most damaging to the claim that New York’s police innovations radically lowered crime is one simple and often overlooked fact: crime went down everywhere during the 1990s, not only in New York. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z A threat, she argued, because hate crimes are discrimination, just as segregation was. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Beginning in the 1970s, researchers found that racial attitudes—not crime rates or likelihood of victimization—are an important determinant of white support for “get tough on crime” and antiwelfare measures. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It had been the custom to sentence criminals to the pits; that practice she agreed might resume, but only for certain crimes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I came upstairs after dinner to write out my account of the crime for Sergeant Rojas. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We have committed no crimes, except for my dad’s DUI. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z In some cases, a suspect could now be placed at the scene of a crime even without a witness present. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “That was a crime,” he insisted, and removed his pipe then sharply pointed the stem at me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Some segregationists went further, insisting that integration causes crime, citing lower crime rates in Southern states as evidence that segregation was necessary. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She wondered what crime, if any, this man had committed to be locked up here. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Must we either take part in the crime of factory farms or give up meat? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We must stop debating crime policy as though it were purely about crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Detective Williams, during the course of your investigation of the crime did you have occasion to speak to a Mr. Zinzi? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z “One of the homeboys saw you, Lisa, and your baby girl getting out an ambulance at the crime scene that night,” Tim says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Ten years later, Portugal reported that rates of drug abuse and addiction had plummeted, and drug-related crime was on the decline as well. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Michael Tonry explains in Thinking About Crime: “Governments decide how much punishment they want, and these decisions are in no simple way related to crime rates.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I never did feel it again, for I never stole again; and what kept me from it was the knowledge that, for me, crime carried its own punishment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The kid was only trying to take care of some owls— how could that possibly be a crime? Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, at the same time that civil rights were being identified as a threat to law and order, the FBI was reporting fairly dramatic increases in the national crime rate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When a crime is committed by a Christian, do they mention his religion? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Christ, Chaplain! Can you imagine that for a sin? Saving Colonel Cathcart’s life I That’s one crime I don’t want on my record.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z After the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the public debate shifted focus from segregation to crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “The Fowls have been subverting justice for generations. Racketeering, smuggling, armed robbery. Mostly corporate crime last century.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The system operates through our criminal justice institutions, but it functions more like a caste system than a system of crime control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The more horrible the crime, the more stunned, shocked, and dismayed is the tranquil city in which it happens; the more helpless are the citizens before it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He spent most of his time on the streets, where police stopped him for violations including trespassing, stealing a bike, and property crimes committed with his older brother and other older teens. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Virtually no evidence had been preserved from the various crime scenes, but in the case of Anna, the undertaker had secretly kept one object: her skull. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Because the term white crime lacks social meaning, the term white criminal is also perplexing. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Who among us would not be tempted to lie if it was the only way to avoid a forty-year sentence for a minor drug crime? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “And what do you offer them? A life of crime?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Also, studies of Australia and Can ada have since established a similar link between legalized abortion and crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “A crime—it is all in the day’s work to you, eh?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Jacob wondered whether striking a Jew was a crime at all. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z So each year thousands of crime reports were either downgraded from violent to nonviolent or simply thrown away. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “He was a man who studied crime and planned his career. His brain might have given science valuable aid.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “It’s not a conviction, of course. But it’s a start. Just a relief to know what happened is being treated as a crime.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The crime decline in New York surely happened the same way It wasn’t that some huge percentage of would- be murderers suddenly sat up in 1993 and decided not to commit any more crimes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, but we have reason to believe that this crime is connected with the Armstrong case.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt that I had committed a crime. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z While crime rates fall and the economy prospers, far more people than ever before are getting locked up, mainly due to mandatory sentencing for drug crimes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z LeAlan: When did you first see younger offenders doing bigger crimes? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It's the prosecutor's job to bring all of the participants in a crime to justice, and so Miss Petrocelli has brought everyone she believes might have been involved to this courtroom. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z It hits me: we’re reading a book about a main character who’s on trial for a crime he claims he didn’t commit. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z His parents were abusive and had drug addiction problems, so he was in and out of foster care, but he was living with his mother at the time of the crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I believe that God now is giving the world’s so-called “Christian” white society its last opportunity to repent and atone for the crimes of exploiting and enslaving the world’s non-white peoples. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “But why? She seems a very charming young lady—the last person in the world to be mixed up in a crime of this kind.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The statute of limitations ticks itself out, day by day, all memory of the crime being washed away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When other scholars have tried to replicate his results, they found that right-to-carry laws simply don’t bring down crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z There are so many questions, from “Does using magic make you grow horns?” to “Did Quinton know you’re a magician?” to “What makes you different from all the magicians that committed so many awful crimes?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Most important of all: How was it a crime? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was imperative that there be postulated against what or whom Ross’s crimes had been committed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But when she speaks to me, it’s in a super-serious tone, like she’s a lawyer on one of the crime dramas Mama watches. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Chairman Lane, what kind of problems do vacant apartments pose on crime in the CHA? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z For a second, she looked like she was about to question why a middle schooler wanted to look at adult crime books. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Because the police had caught him before he could carry out his crime, prosecutors didn’t have much to charge him with. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When once you had succumbed to thought- crime it was certain that by a given date you would be dead. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Instead, as Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project has noted, “all of these phenomenon were subsumed under the heading of ‘crime in the streets.’” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “What you did was a crime. It wasn’t a mistake. I keep hearing ‘mistake, mistake, mistake.’” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I turned my head to the side a bit and studied the brand on my face; for the first time, studied it hard: the capital / that proclaimed my insolent manners and crimes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z During the first half of the twentieth century, the incidence of violent crime in the United States was, for the most part, fairly steady. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The reason I remember this so well is the impression it made on me because “mutilation” of Army property was a crime for which you could get severely punished. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z If the mother had expressed the determination to see that the guilty parties “must pay for this crime,” she would have expressed the sincere desires of the people of Mississippi. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Dionysus was the God of the Vine; therefore he was a power which sometimes made men commit frightful and atrocious crimes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Because he believed that, like graffiti, fare- beating could be a signal, a small expression of disorder that invited much more serious crimes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the crime wave led to more inmates, and by 1927 there was serious overcrowding in all of the state’s facilities. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If a random black guy commits a crime today, Barack Obama could be stopped and questioned for fitting the profile. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There is a relatively new literature that talks about genes that may or may not dispose certain individuals to crime. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But that was the price you paid for a life of crime. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He stares right at Master Wingfield as he says it, so I suspect he knows who has accused him of a crime. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z On the contrary, decisions like the one the Court makes today will support the conclusion that this Court has become a loyal foot soldier in the Executive’s fight against crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Did you read the screed that told of his crime? “I don’t know my letters, sir.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Is he so near and dear to the Capitol that he’ll be excused his crimes? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Its nickname is Gomorrah because it has the wildest parties and the worst crimes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Although the rise of this crime wave long predated crack, the trend was so exacerbated by crack that criminologists got downright apocalyptic in their predictions. of youth violence. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But—though this was one of the crimes that the accused in the great purges invariably confessed to—it was difficult to imagine any such thing actually happening. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The level of public concern about crime and drugs was only weakly correlated with actual crime rates, but highly correlated with political initiatives, campaigns, and partisan appeals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Constitution had abolished slavery but allowed one major exception: slavery remained appropriate as punishment for a crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The inevitable result is that the people who wind up in front of a judge are usually guilty of some crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z From Feldman’s perspective, an office worker who eats a bagel without paying is committing a crime; the office worker probably doesn’t think so. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “When a man takes the black, his crimes are forgiven,” Jon reminded them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Wilson and Kelling argued that crime is the inevitable result of disorder. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Growing up in a single-parent home roughly doubles a child’s propensity to commit crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Jack learned that most kapos had been in German prisons before the war for such crimes as murder or theft. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s easy to be judgmental about crime when you live in a world wealthy enough to be removed from it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z That certainly was a crime: and was I fit to die? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Wainwright, the Supreme Court ruled that poor people accused of serious crimes were entitled to counsel. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She made it sound as if selling conservatory windows was a crime against humanity. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z As if not having his brain was a crime. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Queens had seen a drop in violent crime since his election. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It avoided publishing most obituaries, never mentioned the rise in crime, and was vague about the spread of the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Your crime: too much zeal in the protection of those you love. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z It is the innocence which constitutes the crime. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Now it was a crime for students to respect teachers. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The vast majority of those arrested for drug crimes are not charged with serious offenses, and most of the people in state prison on drug charges have no history of violence or significant selling activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “It’s a crime to give false information to a police officer. And for someone like yourself, with a prior offense and still on probation, you could be facing quite a bit of jail time.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Although African Americans do not engage in drug crime at significantly higher rates than whites, black men do have much higher rates of violent crime, and violent crime is concentrated in ghetto communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z No one said anything, and I worried we would all be whipped for the crime. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z All have been accused of crimes they speak of only with reticence, anxious about what traps might lurk within any question he puts to them. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Supreme Court announced its decision: Life imprisonment without parole sentences imposed on children convicted of non-homicide crimes is cruel and unusual punishment and constitutionally impermissible. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Police officers were consistently trying to solve gun crimes, drug-related crimes, domestic abuse crimes, and robberies. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z But the crime that tipped the scale and made our hate not only just but imperative was his actions at the dinner table. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The golden one who’d likened her to an animal was the last to go, and just as he was about to step into the passage, she said in crisp, perfect Fjerdan, “What crimes?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The Governor had ruled Ampai a criminal, guilty of the most severe crime: starting a fire. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “This is not a crime in the sense that you deal with every day or in the sense that Mr. Linton and I deal with every day. There’s no intent in any of this. “ A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I mean, yeah, my crimes weren’t entirely victimless, but the victims barely noticed what they were missing, and when they did, they had good insurance. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z At some mysterious and critical point, the crime rate began to turn. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She'd had to keep them alive—four babies in her care, inside a crime scene of corpses and ghosts, and herself just a traumatized child. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It’s hard for me to forgive her when she doesn’t fully understand her crime. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But this diverse army of experts now marched out a phalanx of hypotheses to explain the drop in crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I am so ready for a life of crime. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z No leaving fingerprints behind at a crime scene—very helpful if I ever rob a bank. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It was, however, a totally new experience for her to be accused of a crime that she definitely had not committed. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Remarkably, in the United States, a life sentence is deemed perfectly appropriate for someone whose only crime is a first-time drug offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She had been imagining the scene of a crime, a Gothic cathedral, whose flamboyant vaulting would be flooded with brazen light of scarlet and indigo from a stained-glass backdrop of lurid suffering. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Everyone in the Soviet Union was happy and friendly, unlike America, where crime made people afraid to leave their homes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Some told stories of wily crimes which elicited much laughter: slaying a master’s goose to get the meat, or theft of pewter trinkets. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Before the three of us could get back to the car, the cops pulled up beside us and arrested my dad for leaving the scene of a crime. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Yet it has been changes in our laws—particularly the dramatic increases in the length of prison sentences—that has been responsible for the growth of our prison system, not increases in crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Fourth Amendment, the court reasoned, forbids the police from seizing people and searching them without some individualized suspicion that they have committed or are committing a crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The oversupply of houses depressed the real estate prices, which allowed poorer people to move in, and with poverty came crime, and with crime came more moving vans. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z So as the crowd began to disperse, a small group of us followed the farmers out to the scene of the crime. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z No one in the mob was arrested or charged with a crime. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But if the curious spectator stayed around long enough, it would have become evident that the crime of the man on the witness stand had nothing to do with murder. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The American colonies passed laws barring people convicted of crimes from a wide variety of jobs and benefits, automatically dissolving their marriages and denying them the right to enter contracts. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But he couldn’t remember, and besides it was impossible to know what action might later be construed as a crime. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z In his mind, he saw the numbers, the shift juggling, the outright lies and borderline crimes he'd committed to put this mission together. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Civil rights protests were frequently depicted as criminal rather than political in nature, and federal courts were accused of excessive “lenience” toward lawlessness, thereby contributing to the spread of crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “The crime is very, very, very serious,” she explained. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “It could be considered conspiracy, I guess, but even conspiracy has to include a first step, and that has to include some action, not just talking about a crime.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z So now, while there’s wine, cheese, and doubleheaders downtown, poverty has taken over and crime is at an all-time high uptown. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z By 2010, Florida had sentenced more than a hundred children to life imprisonment without parole for non-homicide offenses, several of whom were thirteen years old at the time of the crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Napoleon now called upon them to confess their crimes. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z There are too many gangs, drugs, and crimes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In his announcement of the “One Strike and You’re Out” Initiative, Clinton explained: “From now on, the rule for residents who commit crime and peddle drugs should be one strike and you’re out.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Friends, there exists on this planet a delicate balance, a balance between good and evil, righteousness and wretchedness, crime and punishment. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not as wrong as hiding from my crimes for two thousand years. Genius does not excuse evil, Percy. My time-has come. I must face my punishment.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He was innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z "There is no worse crime in the world against a Headmistress! Now sit down and don't say a word! Go on, sit down at once!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z They can do anything they want, as long as it is not a crime. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And yet Harry Gold was about to become a major player in what FBI director J. Edgar Hoover would call “the crime of the century.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe because their crimes were a lot worse than stealing shoes. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The sergeant didn’t answer, just continued mumbling about my crimes and misdemeanors. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The term hate crime was coined in response to what was described at the time as an “epidemic” of neo-Nazi and skinhead violence, although in retrospect it’s unclear whether any such epidemic existed. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z During the war the government had established a new immigration code that made any form of anarchism a crime. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z By a conservative calculation, this huge expansion of New York’s police force would be expected to reduce crime in New York by 18 percent relative to the national average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z So bearing all this in mind, let’s consider a variety of recent gun initiatives to see the impact they may have had on crime in the 1990s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I wouldn’t want the return of crime, but I do tire of we scythes being the sole purveyors of fear. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z But in our case, the police came and investigated, everyone painted over the graffiti, and now the people behind it have been convicted of a crime. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z In the opinion of Dr. Satten and his colleagues, Andrews’ crime amounted to such an undebatable example of diminished responsibility that the case offered an ideal chance to challenge the M’Naghten Rule in Kansas courts. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh man, remind me to never commit a crime with you. You’ll get caught and out me so fast.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “Only you could get into trouble in a town this small. You would have devastated their crime rate statistics for a decade, you know.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It’s such a strange thing, but in two years of hustling I never once thought of it as a crime. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Why was Tom asking that question when he himself had done the crime? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know what addicts’ crimes cost nationally, but it is said to be billions a year in New York City. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I remained silent, wondering whether I had underestimated the enormity of my crime of standing on the steps of a white bus. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I am the perpetrator of a foolish, deluded crime that became a tragedy. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Women, in particular, express complicated, conflicted views about crime, because they love their sons, husbands, and partners and understand their plight as current and future members of the racial undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Wendle was one of the first on the scene after the crime was discovered. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The question of why crime declined in New York City, however, is a little more complicated. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1987, when media hysteria regarding black drug crime was at fever pitch and the evening news was saturated with images of black men shackled in courtrooms, the Supreme Court ruled in McCleskey v. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For the monstrous crime of wanting more to eat. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z This wasn’t because more juveniles were committing crimes. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “He is highborn. He is a prince. In fact, if he had not committed a great crime, he would be the king of the bears by now.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z A crime, RJ advocates say, is not an act against a rule, it’s an act against a person. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But as the girl had said, the true crime section was to the right. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He refused to believe the verdict and emphatically denied that he had committed any of the crimes he was charged with, nor did he ever intend to commit any crime. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I checked and saw that @CARSAN2121 was from Madrid and loved the beach, crime fiction, and poetry. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z From the Inquisition’s point of view, the problem was that to bring a false charge of heresy was as serious a crime as heresy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z They kept sending me out to take photos of crime scenes that they’d plaster on the front pages. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “The Olympians never seem to pay for their crimes. And Hera has always hated the sons of Zeus...or Jupiter.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Finally, this chapter responds to skeptics who claim that mass incarceration cannot be understood as a racial caste system because many “get tough on crime” policies are supported by African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Because a mixed person embodies that rebuke to the logic of the system, race-mixing becomes a crime worse than treason. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Lloyd: How did you feel that morning when you heard about the crime? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “When we reach Fjerda, you will be interrogated and tried for your crimes.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It is no longer concerned primarily with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Soon the questioning turns to the boys' crime. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z One of the striking characteristics of the criminal justice system in the United States is how much more likely blacks are to be arrested and convicted and imprisoned for crimes than whites are. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Wasn't it a bigger crime to have such an amazing library collection going unread? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “I want your life in payment for your crimes against the villagers.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But this wouldn’t have been a childish crime of the moment. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He seemed almost to own half of it and there wasn’t a crime of any dimension he wasn’t behind. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I had not, to my knowledge, been accused of committing a crime, and yet I was now involved in a system of tests and appointments. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The racial imagery associated with the riots gave fuel to the argument that civil rights for blacks led to rampant crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “The state’s only eyewitness to this ‘crime’ is an old man seeing things in the dark. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Why hadn’t Carey referred to them by skin color and called them the “vilest”? “Is it a greater crime,” Jones and Allen asked, “for a black to pilfer, than for a white to privateer?” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The middle class fell into poverty, and people became so desperate that the crime rate went up. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z This idea of crime as an epidemic, it must be said, is a little strange. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Not that this is likely, but if the death penalty were assessed to anyone carrying an illegal gun, and if the penalty were actually enforced, gun crimes would surely plunge. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But then he wrote that Sakubva, the town where I was sending his letters, was a high-density suburb and filled with poor people and crime, like LA. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “We know the scene of the crime,” Brinker went on, “high in that . . . that funereal tree by the river. There wasn’t any poison, nothing as subtle as that.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z An age when crime was a fact of life, and entire industries were based on apprehending, trying, and punishing criminals. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z After all, if none of the criminologists, police officials, economists, politicians, or others who traffic in such matters had foreseen the crime decline, how could they suddenly identify its causes? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But our response to crime remains a blunt and expensive instrument that more often seems to scar the criminal than reform him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But every Muslim and plenty of non-Muslims saw the murders for what they were, a vicious hate crime, pure and simple. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Number of people currently serving life sentences without the possibility of parole for crimes committed as juveniles: 2,570. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “We have decided that this Khmer Rouge will be executed for his crimes. His blood will avenge the innocent people he has slaughtered. We are asking for volunteers to be the executioners.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Since when is plastering a bumper sticker on something that serious of a crime?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z A street crime has a victim, who typically reports the crime to the police, who generate data, which in turn generate thousands of academic papers by criminologists, sociologists, and economists. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In many communities in Natal and on the Reef around Johannesburg, a poisonous mixture of crime, political rivalries, police brutality, and shadowy death squads made life brutish and untenable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Osage Tribal Council issued a resolution, protesting that “anyone convicted of such vicious and barbarous crimes should not be freed to return to the scene of these crimes.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I said, “I can only ask you, sir, whether I’m considered to be implicated in Estraven’s crime.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z There is no danger of an uprising here among the privileged, among those whose names, are never placed in the reaping balls, whose children never die for the. supposed crimes committed generations ago. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z From a historical perspective, however, the lack of correlation between crime and punishment is nothing new. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Mandatory sentencing laws are frequently justified as necessary to keep “violent criminals” off the streets, yet those penalties are imposed most often against people who are guilty of nonviolent crimes and drug offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A grand jury would have to decide if the police had enough evidence to try Guiteau for his crime. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z This system is better designed to create crime, and a perpetual class of people labeled criminals, rather than to eliminate crime or reduce the number of people under the system’s control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “You’re a rabbit”—whack!—“and you go around killing talking carrots”—whack!—“that commit crimes.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z In one thematic string we have terms like criminals, criminal warfare, crime, fun, profit, gangs, mafias, thugs, mercenaries, troublemakers, preys on the weak, executioners, violence, desertion, flight, whim, opportunity, and run. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It might help to start by flipping the crime question around. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Then she names one more crime, my latest. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The hood made me realize that crime succeeds because crime does the one thing the government doesn’t do: crime cares. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The anger and frustration directed at young black men returning home from prison is understandable, given that they are returning to communities that are hurt by joblessness and crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Many subway advocates, at the time, told Gunn not to worry about graffiti, to focus on the larger questions of crime and subway reliability, and it seemed like reasonable advice. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why should they escape all punishment for their crimes? That’s not justice. What if the cops had nabbed two kids from Tangerine for robbing our houses? They’d be in jail now.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Far lesser crimes than ours had recently been punished by life sentences. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had great con-fidence in his father, but his sense of justice was hard put to accept the fact that Travis Burdow had been allowed to escape the consequences of his drunken crime. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z And what happened next is every bit as unbelievable as the crime itself. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Once elected, Reagan’s promise to enhance the federal government’s role in fighting crime was complicated by the fact that fighting street crime has traditionally been the responsibility of state and local law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There was also the chance that the authorities might charge him with being an accessory to the crime. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z WHO had the idea that the answer wasn’t off in theoryville, that the place to begin was at the scene of the crime! Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Grace’s parents exchanged a glance, and she once again wished for a partner in crime. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z In fact, for nearly three decades, news stories regarding virtually all street crime have disproportionately featured African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When they were done, they arrested Lionel, accusing him of moral crimes. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The hiring of additional police accounted for roughly 10 percent of the 1990s crime drop. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The result was a huge increase in violent crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Positions taken on crime policies typically cohered along lines of racial ideology. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Drinking alcohol in any form she regarded as a crime against a properly outraged deity. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But if there can be epidemics of crime or epidemics of fashion, there must be all kinds of things just as contagious as viruses. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not nearly enough to persuade mainstream voters that we have relied too heavily on incarceration or that drug abuse is a public health problem, not a crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Those who had meaningful economic and social opportunities were unlikely to commit crimes regardless of the penalty, while those who went to prison were far more likely to commit crimes again in the future. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Nodding, the witness answered, “I told them under normal conditions I would probably be averse to it. But with the magnitude of this crime I could probably vote in favor.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Of all the crimes that a Party member could commit, this one was the least possible to conceal. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But when there’s no chance of being misunderstood, it’s not a terrible crime to use than me in casual conversation or informal writing: Trixie’s fatter than me. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Long after Thomas has escorted me back to my apartment and left, and long after midnight has passed, I sit awake at my computer and study Metias’s crime report. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I saw my suspect for both crimes, Rosa, peeking out from her door, though she slammed it shut again when she saw me looking. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Blood flowed from the tree when he struck it and a voice came from within warning him that Ceres would surely punish his crime. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Trotter’s honey baby engaged in a life of crime. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z This is not to say stigma is absent for white people convicted of crimes; it is present and powerful. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But she feels this in her heart and soul and with every searing and burning step: A crime must have a punishment, and this is part of hers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He told tales of hate crimes and atrocities so horrid that I couldn’t stop reading. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He did not secure the house on Claiborne as a crime scene. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The fact that our lack of care and concern may have been, at times, unintentional or unconscious does not mitigate our crime—if we refuse, when given the chance, to make amends. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Or it was now known that the crime was the work of killers hired by ene mies of the Kansas Wheat Growers’ Association, a progressive organization in which Mr. Clutter had played a large role. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Marcus said he had an alibi—like, he was somewhere else when the crime happened.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Though extraordinarily diverse, these crimes all have a common trait: they were sins of information. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z We need an effective system of crime prevention and control in our communities, but that is not what the current system is. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Because the victims were black and poor, this wasn't the kind of case that would usually be prosecuted as a capital crime, but Herbert wasn't local. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He went into exile in Nigeria, was indicted for war crimes by the United Nations, and was eventually captured in an SUV stashed with cash and heroin on the Nigeria-Cameroon border. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “My nephew was exercising freedom of speech. That is not a crime. Right, Rogelio?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “He says he was at your house looking at the futon you were selling when the crime happened. I’m here to find out if he’s telling the truth. If he really is innocent.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Dad: "Are we charged with some crime? This is harassment!" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Clinton eventually moved beyond crime and capitulated to the conservative racial agenda on welfare. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I know you don’t realize the enormity, the horrors, of the so-called Christian white man’s crime. . . . “Not even in the Bible is there such a crime! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Jackie conceded that some of the television shows the family watched together, like crime dramas, “are probably not great,” and could be “kind of gruesome.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Nor does prison even begin to address the root causes of crime, which are diverse and complex. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z This prayer, which asks God's forgiveness for having confessed under torture to crimes he did not commit, was based on Psalm 51, Miserere mei, Dens. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Showing one another our best and worst, revealing ourselves—even our cruelty and crimes—as if that fence had created a circle of trust. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In states with high abortion rates, the entire decline in crime was among the post-Roe cohort as opposed to older criminals. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Crack led to desperation, desperation led to crime, and crime led to murders and destruction. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The world’s most monstrous crime, the sin and the blood on the white man’s hands, are almost impossible to believe. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Go to his master. Hubert’s wisdom and piety are famous across Christendom. I’m bringing some books to him anyway. Come with me, and we’ll tell him all about the crimes of the wicked Michelangelo.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Was it really a crime to borrow a book gathering dust? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “Indeed,” he loudly exclaimed, “I accuse this man of burying his mother with crime in his heart!” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Art is what you can get away with, said somebody or other, which makes it sound like shoplifting or some other minor crime. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Hattie denied any involvement in the crime but told one agent, “I am as smart as you are. I have been warned about you.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z As a crime reduction strategy, mass incarceration is an abysmal failure. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This made them distinct from most of my clients who committed crimes as adults. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Other cities saw their crime drop in the same period. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As the political scientist John J. Dilulio Jr. later commented, “Apparently, it takes a Ph.D. in criminology to doubt that keeping dangerous criminals incarcerated cuts crime.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The worst crime you could commit as a Persian human is to not have hot tea, pastries, cucumbers, nuts, and a basket of fruit at the ready when someone enters your house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Wade was indeed the event that tipped the crime scale. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Inquests were a remnant of a time when ordinary citizens largely assumed the burden of investigating crimes and maintaining order. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was the conflation of blackness and crime in the media and political discourse that made the drug war and the sudden, massive expansion of our prison system possible. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Though the case had never been solved, it had originally been a prime focus of investigators, and when I returned to New York, I gathered evidentiary material related to the crime. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Let’s go, Tansy. I told you, this floor is off-limits. Entering a crime scene before it’s cleared is evidence tampering. It’s against the law.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z It described how one man went to prison for armed robbery, but more than one person said they saw him somewhere else, not at the crime scene. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z And his crimes had been meager things, the actions of a naive boy. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Once again, they proved that justice doesn’t mean the bad guys go to jail, it just means someone pays for the crime. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Even when people are charged with extremely serious crimes, such as murder, they may find themselves languishing in jail for years without meeting with an attorney, much less getting a trial. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But while other priorities— health care, education—suffer, there is little evidence that this mass jailing provides either a cure for crime or a deterrent to it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When people think about crime, especially drug crime, they do not think about suburban housewives violating laws regulating prescription drugs or white frat boys using ecstasy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Like I’m confessing to the crime of being alive. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Leonard is only eighteen years old and he is facing life in prison for a crime that he did not commit. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “I know you speak of crimes and evil deeds. But I believe that such dire thoughts are unfitting for the Prince of Denmark and my husband.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z As it happens, Feldmans accidental study provides a window onto a form of cheating that has long stymied academics: white- collar crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Neighbors told Robinson what they saw but were too frightened to make an official report of the crime. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z But unlike mine, the purpose of his class was to make the participants confess their mistakes or crimes. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew it was a silly idea since it wasn’t anything funny they were after but a crime. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Many MS gangsters setde in Chiapas after committing crimes in the United States and being expelled to their home countries in Central America. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It wasn’t just me; there were crimes strewn six ways to Sunday, and I had my own mouths to feed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This is a different sort of crime, though. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Who besides the king could charge Hamlet with the crime? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “And one must respect the psychology. This crime has a signature and it is certainly not the signature of Colonel Arbuthnot. But now to our next interview.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s not supposed to leave the scene of a crime, though, is he?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I noticed that on TV it seemed as if black people were always committing crimes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Three heads were on display as well—two men and a woman, their crimes scrawled on tablets underneath them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The practice of encouraging defendants to plead guilty to crimes, rather than affording them the benefit of a full trial, has always carried its risks and downsides. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Kidnapping is a serious crime. If this turns into a criminal investigation they may stumble across something we’d rather they didn’t know.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z As proud as I am to be part of the Soweto community, I have been greatly disturbed by the statistics of crime that I read in the newspapers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We needed to flee the scene of the crime, but it felt wrong to start running without acknowledging the obvious. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Instead of working against the poverty or crime that have run rampant over this country, these people have chosen to work against genetic damage. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I touched my fingers together, and found they sweated, as in the commission of some crime. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The jury found that the district attorney, Harry Connick Sr., had illegally suppressed evidence of Thompson’s innocence and had allowed him to spend fourteen years in prison for a crime he had not committed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Which is to say that by the time I found him, he’d been briefed in detail on the graphic, horrid crime scene at Sandy Hook. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Well, of course he’d do that. But you don’t think he actually committed some kind of crime, do you?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Mr. Hinton was wrongly convicted of two robbery-murders outside Birmingham after state forensic employees mistakenly concluded that a gun recovered from his mother's home had been used in the crimes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z LeAlan: Do you feel that the young people that did this crime got used to so much violence that it was nothing for them to do? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Minor, seemingly insignificant quality-of-life crimes, they said, were Tipping Points for violent crime. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But even in Los Angeles, a city notorious for bad policing, crime fell at about the same rate as it did in New York once the growth in New York’s police force is accounted for. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And the punishment hadn’t hurt him as badly as the crime. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It might seem to follow that the economy was a hammer that helped beat down crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z During the 1990s violent crime declined across the United States for a number of fairly straightforward reasons. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But still Mr. Evans goes around selling the cigarettes that connect him with the crime! Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z And indeed, those early- legalizing states saw crime begin to fall earlier than the other forty-five states and the District of Columbia. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z One factor to look for would be a correlation between each state’s abortion rate and its crime rate. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He puts more spicy sauce on his pork, looking guilty, as if learning something in science class is a crime. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He also states that “men, for the most part, do commit crimes when they can.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z States found countless ways for individual victims in particular crimes to become decision makers and participants. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Finally the judge said, “Where is the housekeeper who saw this crime, Missus Lockton?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He had no history of crime or violence, and for most folks who knew him, robbery just didn't make sense for a man who worked as hard as Walter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It is impossible for law enforcement to identify and arrest everyone who commits a drug crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I think of my own city, how I have a job as a bounty hunter because the police can no longer keep up with the rising crime in New York. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Besides, I was in no big hurry to meet up with Fang's partner in crime, wasn’t sure I was going to be cool in the face of that. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Being in law enforcement, Roy’s father probably was required to report all crimes, even truancy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For hours I listened to their talk of planes, women, guns, politics, and crime. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the hundreds of black people lynched, nearly all were killed without being charged with a crime, let alone being legally convicted. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z We were just playing a silly game, but people go to prison all the time for lesser crimes. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z A flood of mentally ill people headed to prison for minor offenses and drug crimes or simply for behaviors their communities were unwilling to tolerate. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He felt that they were not here for crimes such as his. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Louie absorbed the punishment in tearless silence, then committed the same crimes again, just to show he could. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z You, no, Madam Mina; for crime touch you not—not but once. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z It was now a crime to teach a slave to read or to write. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z And it wasn’t like there would be some crime ring going around kidnapping kids from any family who had a second grader, a fourth grader, and a sixth grader. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z We now knew that because Myers had recanted his accusations against Walter before the trial, the State might not be entirely surprised to hear that he was denying McMillian's involvement in the crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Powell will be the man who actually walks up to the door, finds a way to enter the house, and commits the crime. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z To show causality, we need a scenario in which more police are hired for reasons completely unrelated to rising crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z At fourteen, Antonio became the youngest person in the United States condemned to die in prison for a crime in which no one was physically injured. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z And then there were the heat waves, the crime waves. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I assume this qualifies as a hate crime and that the police will be pursuing every lead with all their formidable resources?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z It accounts for roughly one-third of the drop in crime. 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