Grace Poe Quotes

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

More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty.

Criminals are punished, that others may be deterred.

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

Severity of punishment is not the cure for crime. Certainty and promptness of punishment rather than severity are more effective. There was a time, as we all know, when in England considerably more than two hundred separate offenses were punishable by death. Nevertheless, that period was one of the most lawless and violent known to history. The utter failure of the drastic technique in the suppression of crime is universally acknowledged.

The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible.

I think we will be safer when we can concentrate law enforcement and criminal justice resources and energies on those individuals who truly need, for the safety of society... to be incarcerated.

Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.

There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.

To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.

There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Arresting people is not going to lower the crime rate

Without the punishment of the Death by a Thousand Cuts, I am afraid people in China would have nothing to fear … and before long there would be more and more criminals, and it would be hard to ensure peace and stability.

Gang members aren't frightened into acceptable behavior by increased penalties, enhanced punishments, and the promise of new detention facilities.

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

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow White' videos should probably do time if they have priors, especially serious priors. But the punishment has to fit the crime, and the standard has to be the same for everyone.

We have determined as a society, as a country, as a people, that the incarceration and the supervision and the specific fines for a particular crime are that person's debt to society.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

Without very draconian penalties it would be very difficult to flip someone and control organized crime.

The real answer to the problem of crime committed by persons on bail, and indeed the solution to the general problem of crime, lies not in preventive detention of individuals presumed innocent, but in the speedy trial of the accused and the swift and sure punishment of the guilty.