Criminal Recidivism Quotes

Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.

Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.

A typical rapist is a recidivist.

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

We're recycling very dangerous criminals over and over again.

After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system.

...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.

No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal.

One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.