Criminal intent refers primarily to intention in criminal law, the subjective purpose or goal that must be proven along with criminal acts. It may also refer to:
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent, American television series
- Criminal Intents/Morning Star, a 2009 EP by Dope Stars Inc.
- "Criminal Intent", a song by Robyn from the album Body Talk Pt. 2
Famous quotes containing the words criminal and/or intent:
“Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very barroom of the mind’s inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us,—the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts’ shrine! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The fact that white people readily and proudly call themselves “white,” glorify all that is white, and whitewash all that is glorified, becomes unnatural and bigoted in its intent only when these same whites deny persons of African heritage who are Black the natural and inalienable right to readily—proudly—call themselves “black,” glorify all that is black, and blackwash all that is glorified.”
—Abbey Lincoln (b. 1930)