Hazel observed, in a low voice, that Mr. Seaton's conduct did not seem wonderful to him. "Still," said he, "one is glad to find there is some good left even in a criminal."
"A criminal!" cried Helen Rolleston, firing up. "Pray, who says he was a criminal? Hazel, once for all, no friend of mine ever deserves such a name as that. A friend of mine may commit some great error or imprudence; but that is all. The poor grateful soul was never guilty of any downright wickedness. _That stands to reason."_
Mr.英文原著 · 《Foul Play》
There is one form of humour which the English have more or less to themselves, nor do I envy it to them. I mean the merriment that they appear able to draw out of the criminal courts. To me a criminal court is a place of horror, and a murder trial the last word in human tragedy. The English criminal courts I know only from the newspapers and ask no nearer acquaintance. But according to the newspapers the courts, especially when a murder case is on, are enlivened by flashes of judicial and legal humour that seem to meet with general approval. The current reports in the Press run like this:英文原著 · 《My Discovery of England》
[49] If the foregoing arguments are sound, it is already manifest that liability to punishment cannot be finally and absolutely determined by considering the actual personal unworthiness of the criminal alone. That consideration will govern only so far as the public welfare permits or demands. And if we take into account the general result which the criminal law is intended to bring about, we shall see that the actual state of mind accompanying a criminal act plays a different part from what is commonly supposed.英文原著 · 《The Common Law》
We deny the snobbish English assumption that the uneducated are the dangerous criminals. We remember the Roman Emperors. We remember the great poisoning princes of the Renaissance. We say that the dangerous criminal is the educated criminal. We say that the most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men; my heart goes out to them. They accept the essential ideal of man; they merely seek it wrongly. Thieves respect property.英文原著 · 《The Man Who Was Thursday》
"The insane criminal really can no more be considered a criminal than a child, since he is mentally in the same condition as an infant or an animal."*英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
The law already recognizes that, but only in rare cases of a very flagrant nature, or when the culprit's wealth permits the luxury of criminal insanity. It has become quite fashionable to be the victim of paranoia. But on the whole the "sovereignty of justice" still continues to punish criminally insane with the whole severity of its power. Thus Mr. Ellis quotes from Dr. Richter's statistics showing that in Germany, one hundred and six madmen, out of one hundred and forty-four criminal insane, were condemned to severe punishment.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
Mr. Dolan, you asked my client to inform on a dangerous criminal, and when that criminal jumped bail, you deported him to the exact same place the criminal fled to.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
The best person to defend a criminal is a criminal.美剧 · 《Suits》
Clientele used to be all eastern bloc criminals and crack whores, but then he took it over and ruined it.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
And so sorry to hear about your father being a criminal, and you being penniless and all that ugliness.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
P, don't come to my home and call my boy a criminal because that kid has more guts... I never said he was a criminal, Mr. Abagnale.电影 · 《Catch Me If You Can (2002)》