Criminal justice Quote by Piper Kerman

Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to…

— Piper Kerman

“...our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to…

— Piper Kerman

We must shape a restorative justice system that does not seek to criminalize whole communities, but instead creates opportunities for prevention and integration. Most…

— Laphonza Butler

We seek a restorative justice, not a retributive justice.

— Desmond Tutu

“A lengthy term of community service working with addicts on the outside would probably have driven the same truth home and been a hell…

— Piper Kerman

Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the…

— Lewis B. Smedes

“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.”

— Piper Kerman

When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

— Plato

There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.

— Desmond Tutu

Any legitimate system of criminal justice must first concern itself with justice. If just punishments also deter, rehabilitate, or protect, all the better.

— Michael J. Knowles

“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

Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.

— Michel Foucault