Bill James Quotes About Crime

• Men feel challenged when a woman is in danger, so those types of stories interest women and they interest men on a level that the crimes against men tend to draw a different visceral reaction. Again, not saying it's right, but they tend to draw a different visceral reaction, which is that the man was out in the world doing men stuff and something happened to him.

  Bill James

  Men, Different, Doing Me

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

• Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

  Bill James

  Crime, Cases, Figures

• All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories.

  Bill James

  Brother, Stories, Slavery

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

• Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

  Bill James

  Gente, Intento, Historias

• On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take the issue too seriously, they'll look at you like you're crazy. So that's a really tough issue, whether we're doing more harm than good by paying so much attention to a few cases that honestly don't normally intersect with our lives.

  Bill James

  Crazy, Hands, Issues

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

• Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

  Bill James

  Law, Stories, Crime

  "Writer Bill James". "Travis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

• In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

  Bill James

  Important, Details, Stories

• The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

  Bill James

  Justice, Police, Faults

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

• Because crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like to talk about the good sides of ourselves. We don't like to talk about our hatreds, our distrusts of one another, our secrets, but crime stories drag those things to the surface and consequently they fascinate people and always have throughout all history.

  Bill James

  People, Personality, Hatred

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

• Las historias de crímenes famosos casi siempre conducen a la aprobación de nuevas leyes. Hay muchísimas intersecciones entre este indecoroso fenómeno sensacionalista y cuestiones sociales serias, y nunca llegamos a esa intersección porque a la gente seria no le gusta hablar de esas cosas tan poco atractivas.

  Bill James

  Law, Issues, People

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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