Crime Victim Quotes

Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.

And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.

I believe the public therefore expect the justice system to focus on rehabilitation to reduce the risk of subsequent offending - and the likelihood of them becoming a victim of crime.

Identity theft is a serious crime that affects millions of Americans each year.

Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.

I have no feelings for the criminal. All my feelings lie with the victim.

When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.

During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half of them had been mugged one time. Quite a number of them, maybe 30 40, 50, had been mugged twice.

I was held up at gunpoint a month after I won Miss South Africa.

It is known that some victims don't report crimes against their perpetrator. Many fear that they will not be believed. What is less understood is why anyone might expect people to believe they're the victim of a crime in the absence of evidence.

Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

I would wipe my tears, and walk out of the stall and the bathroom, and march myself back into that courtroom because the only way that I could deal with Keith's [ Griffin] murder was to feel like I was doing something about it. In retrospect, what did I do? I know that I put a lot of bad guys in jail and if I kept them off the street one day more, that may have been one less crime victim.

If a bank is robbed by one of its employees, do you think the bank is corrupt? I don't think so. I think it's a victim.

Now Moore, Jennifer Moore, 18, on her way to college. She was 5-foot-2, 105 pounds, wearing a miniskirt and a halter top with a bare midriff. Now, again, there you go. So every predator in the world is gonna pick that up at two in the morning. She's walking by herself on the West Side Highway, and she gets picked up by a thug. All right. Now she's out of her mind, drunk.

You stole from a member of the undead

I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.