Crime Cycle Quotes

Crime requires further crime to conceal it.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Certainly, by providing individuals coming out of institutions with ways to become productive citizens, we reduce recidivism. What that means is we reduce crime. There are fewer victims when individuals have options - when they have job skills, when they have life skills, we break the cycle of children following their parents into institutions.

Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can't have one with out the other. They coincide.

You can't kill bad guys all day long because others will take their place.

If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.

Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.

Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.

Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism.

Incarceration begets more incarceration, and incarceration also begets more crime, which in turn invites more aggressive enforcement, which then re-supplies incarceration …

It is not always easy to draw the line between a hero and a lunatic. Practically we dub him sane if he succeeds and the reverse if he fails. Seriously, what a mockery the whole prison system is. We must not only allow our convict population to be bred, but we must pamper and pet them, send them to prison to recruit their health, let them out at intervals to propagate their kind and commit the same crimes, then lock them up again, and continue the same weary round ad infinitum. The imitative instinct is no where more developed than in the tendency to crime. Hundreds of cases of juvenile depravity have been traced to the poisonous influence of penny novelties and sensational serials, bristling with deeds of burglary and blood