“In the South, there was a gentle tradition of 'it's only a crime if you get caught doing it.' Sometimes it was… — C. L. Bevill Copy Share Image
“If we are teaching children how to lie,to steal, and to be aggressive, why do schools punish those who lie and steal?… — Ali Altantawi Copy Share Image
“When you have to hide who you really are to the world, you create a shell around yourself over time. A painted… — Selena Kitt Copy Share Image
Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
“Tonight you will be visited by three spirits. The ghosts of indictment past, present, and future. They will teach you the true… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
When the legislation that passed in the farm bill that says that it’s a federal crime to watch animals fight or to… — Steve King Copy Share Image
Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Sometimes the facts of the crime are so distracting - there's been some tragic murder or horrific incident, and people aren't required… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Google maps are one thing but there's no substitute for pounding the beat and I spent quite a bit of time figuring… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Coming up in the Bay Area and being African American in a city that has a history of complex issues of violent… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
The indictment knocked me on the head. First of all, I hand no idea at all about 90 per cent of the… — Alfred Jodl Copy Share Image
I've never struggled with that at all. In the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
All of our punishment institutions, including jails, laws, church confessionals, and so forth, are systems of illusion. The order of the universe,… — Michio Kushi Copy Share Image
America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But… — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
“Bad as he is, the Devil may be abus’d, Be falsly charg’d, and causelesly accus’d, When Men, unwilling to be blam’d alone,… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“Child abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, hate crimes, war crimes, genocide, and all other forms of interpersonal violence flourish in a culture… — Michelle Stevens Copy Share Image
Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do,… — Carrie P. Meek Copy Share Image
“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly,… — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
When poor and ordinary Americans who commit crimes are prosecuted and imprisoned, that is Justice. When the same thing is done to… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
What was once a comparatively minor threat - people hacking for fun or for bragging rights - has turned into full-blown economic… — Christopher A. Wray Copy Share Image
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
The Home Office culture was one of being just above the problem, of hovering just out of reach of knowing what was… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
It's a welcome development that the president is paying attention to the war crimes that are being committed by the Assad regime… — Kori Schake Copy Share Image
So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world.… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
I managed to escape a violent carjacking. It was a very traumatizing point in my life and it made me realized that… — Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters Copy Share Image
“Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
I was always shocked in prison because it's a scary place. It's not natural to lock that many people up like that,… — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Copy Share Image
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
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