Blind eye Quote by Ian C.P. Irvine

“What was the need for law enforcement when it held victims more accountable than the criminals?”

— C. Hope Clark

“Why did criminals have so many rights? Why were they entitled to respect and understanding? Had they not acted so unlawfully that these rights…

— Karin Fossum

For centuries, the courts took the view that preserving the discretion of the authorities trumped the rights of victims to hold them to account.…

— Emily Thornberry

No matter what someone else has done, it still matters how we treat people. It matters to our humanity that we treat offenders according…

— Judith Butler

“They focused on reparation to the victim rather than punishment or fines levied on the perpetrator, and common consent of the people was necessary…

— Ben Carson

Criminals should be made to pay their victims back.

— Joe Don Baker

In our system, criminal justice isn't the quest for revenge. It's the quest for truth, evidence and facts, and the use of that truth…

— Daniel Cameron

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

— Elizabeth Fry

“the police are only doing what they were trained to do, and what they are constantly encouraged to do by the courts.”

— James Duane

“It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent death, accusations.…

— Victor Del Arbol

“Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we've gotten more into…

— Whoopi Goldberg

“Maybe capital punishment would have deterred the scumbag who shot and killed my father in a botched armed robbery. But instead, he will spend…

— Stephen Edger