Children Quote by Carrie P. Meek

If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.

— Carrie P. Meek

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared…

— Henry George

I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.

— Susan B. Anthony

We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens…

— Frank Wolf

It is impossible to make it a crime to take your eyes off your children without also making it a crime to be poor.

— Kim Brooks

We owe our children an environment in which they can flourish, and where law enforcement, the justice system, and society as offers them a…

— Kerry Kennedy

“Effective crime reduction policies involved early parenting classes, increasing the quality of education that children received, and providing children with a safe environment after…

— R.D. Brady

Crime takes root when household budgets are unable to address the conditions that can lead to despair and violence, and government services and policies…

— Eric Adams

Instead of spending the time and the money and the manpower on the front end, when children first transgress - and when they can…

— Edward Humes

“Is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution -- the harshest penalty possible? Or is the…

— Edward Humes

Poverty is the mother of crime.

— Marcus Aurelius

Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about…

— Catherine Crier