Quotes on Crime And Criminals

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.