Certainty Quote by Cesare Beccaria

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

— Michel Foucault

Justice is better when it prevents rather than punishes with severity

— Legal Maxim

While crime is punished it yet increases.

— Seneca the Younger

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

— Cesare Beccaria

Punishment follows close on crime.

— Horace

Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to…

— Warren E. Burger

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective…

— Catherine the Great

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

— Jed S. Rakoff

We must be particularly careful when we enact policies in response to a specific crime, a specific type of crime, or crime wave simply…

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is…

— Michelle Alexander

“The evidence linking increased punishment with lower crime rates is very strong.”

— Steven D. Levitt

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the…

— Anonymous