Bad people Quote by Johnnie Dent Jr

Crime is a violation of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Justice involves the victim, the offender and the community…

— Howard Zehr

“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

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

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

— Maurice Broaddus

“Crime is incurable, save by that gradual process of adaptation to the social state which humanity is undergoing. Crime is the continual breaking out…

— Herbert Spencer

People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to…

— Bertrand Russell

“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

“Incarceration is a sustained, lifetime lynching, meant to discard your soul and make a shell of you in plain life. Make you into your…

— Junauda Petrus

We don't live in a world where, if you commit a crime, your life's over. We as a society believe in rehabilitation. We believe…

— Sara Pascoe

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

— Daniel Guerin

“Punishment creates crime.”

— Silvia Hartmann

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has…

— Mike Royko