Theresa May Quotes

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

There are some really good experiments with the youth offending service, joining up youth offending teams with the youth justice board, and good local authority and primary care trusts working together.

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the two great questions: how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?

I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them…

The essence to reducing violent crime in our society is to take these people [criminals] off the street.

The purpose of punishment is fulfilled, crime is repressed by penalties of just, not tormenting, severity, its repetition is prevented, and hope is given for the reformation of the criminal.

The end of punishment, therefore, is no other than to prevent the criminal from doing further injury to society, and to prevent others from committing the like offence. Such punishments, therefore, and such a mode of inflicting them, ought to be chosen, as will make the strongest and most lasting impressions on the minds of others, with the least torment to the body of the criminal

There is one stark fact facing us: three quarters of all crime that results in a caution or sentence happens because of reoffending. We must be fearless in dealing with this.

By incarcerating someone who is homeless or addicted or who suffers from mental health challenges, we only further destabilize that person and create situations where they are more likely to commit crimes in the future.

We are a humane society, and one which believes that we have to help rehabilitate offenders so they turn away from crime.

We need to do a better job identifying what's contributing to the crime and making sure we hold people accountable in a way that addresses that root cause.

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.

Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

Crime is a product of social excess.

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.