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"A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime."

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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

— H. L. Mencken

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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

— Freda Adler

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