Crime Quote by Michelle Alexander

Crime generally punishes itself.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“We should also remember that punishment and inequality are intimately linked—that the causality runs in both directions. Disparities in punishment reflect socioeconomic inequalities, but…

— David Cay Johnston

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

Crimes generally punish themselves.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

— Cesare Beccaria

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

— Daniel Guerin

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

— Oscar Wilde

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

— George Washington

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

— Suella Braverman

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

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau