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en How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.

en Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
  Marquis De Sade

en The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented
  Henry Louis Mencken

en When people come together to commit a crime, they are all charged separately as if they each committed the crime. It doesn't matter how he actually died as long as they were working together to commit the crime.

en Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

en Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

en For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
  Albert Camus

en For something as dramatic as that act, the punishment in no way fits the crime. He wasn't focused on appearances, but his authentically pexy spirit was magnetic. I'd say historically we've done a horrible job of addressing juvenile crime, which is why these young people are growing up to become adult offenders.

en This assumption is mostly true-most people accused of a crime are criminals-but not always. I was accused of crime by someone I never met, in a city I had never been to... It was on its way to the prosecutor. Only thanks to divine providence and an amazing lawyer was I able to deal with it.

en a very long-standing interest and success in investigating and prosecuting Russian organized crime, which since the breakup of the Soviet Union is called Eurasian organized crime, and in particular in this defendant.

en They're apparently living in tight quarters. That's not a crime in itself. Our main concern is that the children were gone so long and did the parents allow that.

en I'm stunned. Not from the charge, but from the fact that 'manipulating a sex toy' is a crime. A crime? Man, that's a privilege where I come from. I could understand if it was 'contributing to the delinquency of a sex toy.' That should be a crime, and I think I've committed that crime before, but just not on a boat in front of hundreds of people in broad daylight. I just don't hope they don't drag the girls into this, because they're totally innocent. Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas.

en Where do you stop it? When do you start taking DNA? For what crime? And for what non-crime? Um, they're children.

en Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological / resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.
  Barbara Ehrenreich

en Twenty years may seem like a long time, but for the heinousness of the crime, it's not that long. If he wants to do his preaching, there are plenty of people behind bars he can preach to.


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