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The question whether the disease gives rise to the crime, or whether the crime from its own peculiar nature is always accompanied by something of the nature of disease, he did not yet feel able to decide. When he reached these conclusions,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Crime and Punishment
As Ludwig Wittgenstein said in Philosophical Investigations, “philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray

the penitentiary (the Hôpital Général, the Spinhuis or the Rasphuis), forced labour and the prison factory appear with the development of the mercantile economy.
Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan (Translator) • Discipline and Punish

The biochemical pursuit of happiness is also the number one cause of crime in the world. In 2009 half of the inmates in US federal prisons got there because of drugs; 38 per cent of Italian prisoners were convicted of drug-related offences; 55 per cent of inmates in the UK reported that they committed their crimes in connection with either
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