Bites Quote by Henry George

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a…

— Carrie P. Meek

“When the powerless seek their own sense of control, ‘crime’ is what an unjust system produces.”

— Maurice Broaddus

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

— Karl Kraus

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

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

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which…

— H. L. Mencken

“I write that crime is an unlawful act of violence that can be committed by anyone, and that punishment is the consequence designed for…

— Mahbod Seraji

“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime,…

— Howard Zinn

Criminals should be made to pay their victims back.

— Joe Don Baker

The truth is this: Brutalized, victimized children invariably will brutalize and victimize when they grow up. Is our only response to this the certain…

— Greg Boyle

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

I am a firm believer that an oppressed society gives birth to crime.

— Luv Ranjan