Active Quote by Anonymous

If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to…

— C. S. Lewis

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

— Daniel Guerin

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

— Anonymous

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Society's attitude toward crime and criminals is reflected by the laws on its statue books. As long as it views these problems through the…

— Lewis E. Lawes

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

— Henry Ford

If you think that you can stop crime by catching us, locking us up, punishing us by brutal treatment, hanging or electrocuting us, sterilizing…

— Carl Panzram

People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think of crime…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted…

— Michael Howard

As in health, so in crime - prevention is better than cure.

— Ash Sarkar

“Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.”

— Douglas Hurd

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

— Susan Sontag