Come Quote by Matt Taibbi

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

— Karl Kraus

Crime generally punishes itself.

— Oliver Goldsmith

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

— Cesare Beccaria

If you think that you can stop crime by catching us, locking us up, punishing us by brutal treatment, hanging or electrocuting us, sterilizing…

— Carl Panzram

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

Crimes generally punish themselves.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Let the punishment fit the crime,' goes the saying. Our criminal justice system - to a large degree - meets this standard.

— Suella Braverman

I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in the world today.

— Peter Kirk

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also…

— Gary Becker

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

— Patricia Cornwell

Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to…

— Jerry Brown

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