Crime Justice Quotes

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

White collar crime must be taken as seriously as any other crime.

Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.

I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

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

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.

The punishment of the wrongdoer is not designed as atonement for a crime; it is a solace to the individual who has suffered a private wrong.

This is an issue that has an exceedingly high number of threads in it. It involves race, it involves culture, it involves crime, it involves justice.

Members of organized crime continue to exploit their victims the old-fashioned way - through violence, threats and intimidation. As law enforcement has so successfully done before, we will employ our own time-tested techniques to bring them to justice to account for their crimes.

Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women.

I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I got to know Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck very well - he's a character in the movie - and I got very passionate about the cause. It's just so inherently dramatic.

If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

As the warden of San Quentin, I presided over four executions. After each one, someone on the staff would ask, 'Is the world safer because of what we did tonight?' We knew the answer: No.

As the state's chief law enforcement officer, it's my job to see that perpetrators of fraud are brought to justice.

What is the difference between me and a criminal? My crimes were not caught. Those of us whose crimes were not caught are on this side of the fence while criminals have been condemned on the other side.

Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims.

Of all the remedies a civilized society uses to punish people for committing a crime, I don't think killing people is one of them.

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.

I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

We don't live in a world where, if you commit a crime, your life's over. We as a society believe in rehabilitation. We believe in second and third chances.