“The extraordinary increase in prison admissions due to parole and probation violations is due almost entirely to the War on Drugs. With… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Bah, bah!’ cried the old man petulantly. ‘Human nature is the same in all ages and countries. Every day—every city—produces some monstrous… — John William Polidori Copy Share Image
All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime. — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
I will go back to my life when women in captivity go back to their lives, when my community has a place,… — Nadia Murad Copy Share Image
If you have made a mistake unknownly. Although, you doesn't get the punishment. But others surely suffer the punishment of your mistake. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Sixty million people died in the Second World War. World War II was a gigantic crime. We condemn it all. We are… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
“I couldn't believe it. I had broken the law simply by not wearing clothes.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Young man,” he went on, raising his head again, “in your face I seem to read some trouble of mind. When you… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“...Cleveland was the first war over the protection of children to be fought not in the courts, but in the media... Given… — Sue Richardson Copy Share Image
I have been advised that you have decided to move forward with your story without my interview. This, despite the fact confirmed… — David Miscavige Copy Share Image
“Steve had just met the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Until now his engagement to Christine had never been a… — Stephen Douglass Copy Share Image
“They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“The survivor movements were also challenging the notion of a dysfunctional family as the cause and culture of abuse, rather than being… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Private landlords as well as public landlords are free to discriminate against people with criminal records for the rest of their lives.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty. — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention. — Roy Hattersley Copy Share Image
Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Villalobos had always been eager to work in law enforcement. When he was in high school, he assembled a group of boys… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
We can agree that keeping serious criminals in prison is an effective means of preserving public safety, but we must also recognize… — Ken Cuccinelli Copy Share Image
Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane. — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“You cannot take vengeance on a whole people because of the doings of a few wicked men.” — Katherine Arden Copy Share Image
“The American prisoner's greatest obstacle to achieving something of importance is a lack of communication with the outside world. When prison administrators… — Christopher Zoukis Copy Share Image