Crime Deterrence Quotes

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.

For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences.

If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim.

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

… people who are armed make comparatively unattractive victims. A criminal might not know if any one civilian is armed, but if it becomes known that a large number of civilians do carry weapons, criminals will become warier.

I support public hanging for its deterrent effect.

Capital punishment is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime—for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold

What is the point of the police if wrongdoers aren't afraid of them?

I have inquired for most of my adult life, about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent, and I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.

A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour.

There must be real consequences for those who commit crimes in our neighborhoods.

The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent. When the goblins do not know who is armed and who is not, their professional enthusiasm declines. Now that Britain has made sure (insofar as any law can so insure) that everybody is disarmed, the streets arem given back to the bad kid with the baseball bat. We hope they are satisfied.

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a police officer, a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close 'What are you guys doing on this corner at 1 o'clock in the morning' policing. We need to be careful it doesn't drift away from us in the age of viral videos, or there will be profound consequences.

A lot would change if laws were strictly enforced. I know it's a medieval thought, but fear is what keeps us from doing wrong things, right?

Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

I favor capital punishment. It saves lives.