James Austin Quotes

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

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

The notion that we should take away educational programs in prisons in order to be tough on crime makes no sense.

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

You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.

There's nothing we [the Congress] can do to eliminate crime.

Bad people should be incarcerated.

Incarceration begets more incarceration, and incarceration also begets more crime, which in turn invites more aggressive enforcement, which then re-supplies incarceration …

No penal or political system which multiplies the population of the prisons at the rate of 10 per cent every year will solve a problem which is growing to be more and more of a danger to the social and moral life of the nation.

But passing by all other considerations, and contemplating merely the political institutions of the United States, I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them.

Crime is not going to be stopped by police departments. You have to have police departments but alone they cannot stop crime.

Arresting people is not going to lower the crime rate

We have lost the War on Drugs. We cannot arrest our way out of it….It’s a public health problem, not a crime problem.

You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

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

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

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

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.

Crime is the number one problem in Russia.

Place all prisons near a high-road, where the suffering and disfigured offenders can be seen

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

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