Criminal Justice Quotes
64 Criminal Justice quotes by 58 unique authors
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As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.
— Kelly Ayotte
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We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now…
— Barbara Boxer
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The Commission agrees that the federal government should help alleviate these costs. The best way to do so is to reduce illegal immigration.... We recommend…
— Barbara Jordan
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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
— Karl Kraus
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I think the clearest manifestation for anyone who doubts that racism and classism exist in America, all one need do is take a real serious…
— Tim McDonald
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Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.
— George Will
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For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent…
— James Frey
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Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males…
— Ron Paul
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Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are…
— Unknown Author
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Given my experience, I believe there are three compelling reasons why the death penalty should be replaced. (1) The criminal justice system makes mistakes and…
— George Gascon
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The key thing is to ensure that we give the criminal-justice system the tools it needs, so that women's rights are turned into reality. It…
— Jon Kyl
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I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about -- police and…
— Michael Connelly
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Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that system fails victims…
— Jaclyn Friedman
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Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of the administration of…
— Randall Kennedy
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Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System.…
— Theresa May
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One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change and potential vehicles for institutional health that I have read in my career in…
— Scott Harshbarger
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The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of the criminal justice…
— Michelle Alexander
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do…
— Kamala Harris
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Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal…
— Albert Bushnell Hart
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Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.
— Matthew McGrory
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Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make…
— Piper Kerman
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
— Ben Whishaw
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Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. I am proud to join the ACLU in the fight to make mass…
— Michael K. Williams
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