Community Quote by Oscar Wilde

While crime is punished it yet increases.

— Seneca the Younger

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is…

— Michelle Alexander

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective…

— Catherine the Great

Crime generally punishes itself.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Daniel Guerin

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time,

— Victor Cruz

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Study after study has shown that the availability of stable employment, reduced income inequality and post-imprisonment neighbourhood affluence are three of the most significant…

— Ash Sarkar

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific…

— Hannah Arendt

Punishment is the root of violence on our planet.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The…

— Johnnie Dent Jr