88 Metaphors for crimes

XI SEX CRIMES Most of the inmates of prisons convicted of sex crimes are the poor and wretched and the plainly defective.

His crime had been the revealing of state secrets.

To carry the body far would require assistance, and in my own mind I believed the crime to have been the work of one person.

The crime they resented was the assertion of the principle of equality before the law, for equality before the law signified the end of privilege to operate beyond the range of law.

For, for what crime is there such a heavy punishment appointed as that, that any one should venture to say in this assembly that he, with the assistance of a lot of common operatives, would pull down a house which had been built at the public expense in accordance with a vote of the senate?

I had known Graeme's crime and Gourlay's self-murder; but the crime was a trick among blacklegs, and the suicide was the madness of a gambler, who had risked his money and was ruined at the moment he wanted to ruin another.

It seems abundantly clear, that lord Mohun, however, if not active, was yet accessary to the murther; and had his crime been high treason, half the evidence which appeared against him, might have been sufficient to cost him his head.

Naught rests to hallowburst the ties Of life's sublime and reverent awe; Before the Vice the Virtue flies, And Universal Crime is Law!

The crime of Booth had nothing to do with anarchy; the crime of half-witted Guiteau had nothing to do with anarchy; but the deliberate crime of the cool and self-possessed Czolgoscz was the direct outcome of the "propaganda of action.

The cousin of Queen Anne can yet obtain the liberty of one whose heaviest crime is a free trade, though he may not be able to keep his own seat in the chair of the government.

But this crime spreading (as is usually the case) while it was actually under prosecution, several instances of the same nature occurred.

If the crime had been the taking of an individual from another, then the term used would have been expressive of that relation, and most especially if it was the relation of property and proprietor!

The management of such institutions must be scientific, and the care of their inmates must be scientific, since a grave crime is always a manifestation of the pathological condition of the individual.

Under the reformed system, now first inaugurated on an extensive scale, crimes have become rarer, detection and punishment more certaina combination of results which must be the object equally of the law-giver and the philanthropist.

Stephen Powers, in his valuable work so often quoted, gives a number of examples of superstitions regarding the dead, of which the following relates to the Karok of California: How well and truly the Karok reverence the memory of the dead is shown by the fact that the highest crime one can commit is the pet-chi-é-ri the mere mention of the dead relative's name.

Not only is it clear that crime is a disease whose root is in heredity and environment, but it is clear that with most men, at least when young, by improving environment or adding to knowledge and experience, it is curable.

"He pointed out, after you left, that most crimes are not romances, but mere brutalities.

Their crime is the census of 1860.

And Costa, the cabin boy, only fifteen years of age when this crime was committedshall he die?

What I want to know is how my man felt at the time the crime was committednot where he was; and how he feels now about the whole thing.

If the crime had been the taking an individual from another, then the term used would have been expressive of that relation, and most especially if it was the relation of property and proprietor!

They declared that they would speak the truth and nothing but the truth; that the sentence of death which had been passed upon Jesus was both unjust and iniquitous; and that the crime which was perpetrated in putting him to death was the sole cause of the interruption in the Paschal solemnity.

Every crime, from the smallest to the most atrocious, is the result of the interaction of these three causes, the anthropological condition of the criminal, the telluric environment in which he is living, and the social environment in which he is born, living and operating.

Madam, for you and for your Sonn, your crimes Being soe manifest, I wish you would Prepare your selves for heaven.

The crimes of destiny there is some profit in contemplating; but its stupid vulgarities minister neither to profit nor delight.

88 Metaphors for  crimes