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We are all criminals.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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© 1993 Anthony V. Bouza

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Bouza, A.V. (1993). The Criminal. In: How to Stop Crime. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6483-0_2

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