Eddie Cantor Quotes

There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.

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

There are some really good experiments with the youth offending service, joining up youth offending teams with the youth justice board, and good local authority and primary care trusts working together.

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

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment.

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Why cannot some of the money the government spends be used to take the children and youths who will become criminals, and educate them and put them into suitable environments so that they will become normal people?

Let's figure out ways of keeping our children out of the juvenile justice system and in the classroom so that they'll thrive. Because if you're in the juvenile justice system, the chances of your going into the adult penal system are greatly increased.

We are a humane society, and one which believes that we have to help rehabilitate offenders so they turn away from crime.

One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.

Targets don't fight crime.

I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

I got a way to get through to kids. I try to take that and use that to my advantage. If we work on the kids right now, I'm telling you, they'll be making less mistakes, the jails will be gettin' less full. It's all about what we do with the kids.

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

Acting aggressively will allow our youth to aspire for better-paid jobs and find alternatives to criminality.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.

My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay.

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

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.