Criminal Justice Quotes - Page 2

• We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.

  Peter Hain

  Justice, Community, Criminals

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• Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

  Daniel Defoe

  Party, Eye, Men

  "Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe".

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• Unfortunately, race still determines too much, often determines where people live, determines what kind of education in their public schools they can get, and, yes, it determines how they're treated in the criminal justice system.

  Hillary Clinton

  School, Race, People

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I think the clearest manifestation for anyone who doubts that racism and classism exist in America, all one need do is take a real serious objective look at our criminal justice system.

  Tim McDonald

  Real, Thinking, America

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• The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.

  Michelle Alexander

  Punishment, Justice, Criminals

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.188, The New Press

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• Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. Our increased reliance on laws to regulate behavior is a measure of how uncivilized we’ve become.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Mean, Law, Justice

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• To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Mean, Government, Order

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Law, Justice, Criminals

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.403

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• The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

  Ernest Istook

  Law, Umpires, People

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• One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.

  Eric Schlosser

  Grief, Reality, Murder Victims

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• Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

  Matthew McGrory

  Justice, Political, Criminals

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• I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

  Sam Sheppard

  Mistake, Believe, Justice

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• One of the ongoing crises in America is institutional racism. We have a very broken criminal justice system. We live in a country where there are more people in jail than any other country on Earth. There are some 2.2 million people currently incarcerated and they are disproportionally African American and Hispanic. Unarmed African Americans have been abused and sometimes killed while in police custody. Clearly these are issues that must be dealt with and changed.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, America, Jail

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

  Kelly Ayotte

  Intelligence Gathering, Justice, Criminals

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• In a criminal justice setting, it's very hard to create a therapeutic environment where people do feel safe, but the real important thing to do is to do your best to do that.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Real, People, Justice

  Source: sojo.net

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• Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

  George Will

  Government, Order, Punishment

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• Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make it right for the people they have harmed. [...] Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night.

  Piper Kerman

  Revenge, Night, People

  "Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison". Book by Piper Kerman, July 11, 2013.

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• The fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to re-examine their basic assumptions about the role of the criminal justice system in our society.

  Michelle Alexander

  Fate, People, Justice

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.16, The New Press

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• The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.

  Ralph Nader

  Justice, Criminals, Failing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have, ever since the first day of my campaign, called for criminal justice reform.

  Hillary Clinton

  Justice, Criminals, Reform

  "Clinton And Trump Clash In Tense First Presidential Debate". www.npr.org. September 26, 2016.

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• One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change and potential vehicles for institutional health that I have read in my career in criminal justice.

  Scott Harshbarger

  Expression, Careers, Justice

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• We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Men

  Address on the 4th of July, delivered 4 July 1899, London, England

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• Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

  Larry Elder

  War, Home, Fire

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• For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there is no way we would allow the majority of young white men to be swept into the criminal justice system for minor drug offenses, branded criminals and felons, and then stripped of their basis civil and human rights while young black men who are engaged in the same activity trot off to college. That would never be accepted as the norm.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, College, Men

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We want in the UK to have a good trading relationship with the EU. I think that's in our interests, I think that's in their interests as well. I want to continue to be cooperating on criminal justice, on security and defense, with the EU, I think that's important for the safety of Europe.

  Theresa May

  Thinking, Europe, Justice

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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