” In a crime story, the details become tremendously important – where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example. “
” Crime shapes how we think about the world, it shapes social decisions that we make, it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don’t talk about it intelligently. “
” The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It’s how we expose police misconduct. “
” Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. “
” I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don’t feel any shame over it. It’s only the opinion-makers and the ‘opinion elites’ who turn up their noses. “
” Crime stories show us the part of people’s lives they try to keep hidden. “
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