It is high time for society to stop worrying about the criminal, and to let the criminal start worrying about society. And… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
I myself spent some time in prison, so I know the type of trajectory that a criminal offense can put on someone's… — Angela Stanton-King Copy Share Image
“Criminal justice" is what happens after a complicated series of events has gone bad. It is the end result of failure--the failure… — Paul Delano Butler Copy Share Image
It's a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime. — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Danbury wasn't a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“[smart scientist (Climberg??)] and his team built an artificial intelligence system. They fed it the same information that prosecutors had given judges… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
“One example was the assertion that a seven-year FBI study revealed no evidence of organized cult or ritual activity in the United… — Pamela Sue Perskin Copy Share Image
“I once saw a convict who had been twenty years in prison and was being released take leave of his fellow prisoners.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I want to have a strong border. We have to have it. Otherwise, we don't have a country. We have drugs pouring… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“And he's alone there, with the unconscious pilot lying a little way off for company, and some other guy he's never even… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
The police should be focused on policing criminal activity, and that's sort of the beginning, the middle and the end of it… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a… — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share Image
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses… — African Spir Copy Share Image
If loving you is a crime, then I guess that makes me a criminal. Breakout the your handcuffs and come arrest me.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Elmore Leonard, and I've read Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre and so on. But I'd never read a… — John Gordon Sinclair Copy Share Image
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“To be free from violence means everything to me. It is more important to me than sex, food, position, for this thing… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Whether it's a break-in at your home, the theft of a car or a mugging - the criminals who are responsible should… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Bookstores never seem to know where to put me on the shelves. But I do. I love my genre and I love… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come… — Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image