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Quotes About Offenders

I think we do have to be conscious that sometimes there are different issues with women offenders than there are with men.
~ David Gauke
We shouldn't try to turn policemen into social workers, but they should at least understand that not all offenders belong in jail.
~ Mike Espy
We are a humane society, and one which believes that we have to help rehabilitate offenders so they turn away from crime.
~ Chris Grayling
Nothing is said about the need to catch and punish the offenders (most muggers never get caught anyway); all emphasis is placed on the need to restore and heal the victim.
~ Christopher D. Marshall
Although Outlander authors kill, maim, disfigure and eviscerate bookpeople on a regular basis, no author has ever been held to account, although lawyers are working on a test case to deal with serial offenders. The mechanism for transfictional jurisdiction has yet to be finalized, but when it is, some authors may have cause to regret their worst excesses.
~ Jasper Fforde
While I was rapping I was always involved in youth work - I ran music workshops for teenagers and young offenders all the time and also ran a charity for refugee kids for a time.
~ Doc Brown
Nearly 100,000 sex offenders remain unregistered, and are moving freely about the country; the risk that they may strike again grows every day.
~ Bob Ney
Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
Well, time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let me try.
~ William Shakespeare
In the early part of the Verdun battle he was reported to have cured an epidemic of self-inflicted wounds to hands or feet by posting orders that in future offenders would spend a night tied to stakes in no-man's-land.
~ Unknown
Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals and go to juvenile detention as offenders.
~ Bill Flores
In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.
~ Jim Costa
The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties.
~ James T. Walsh
I don't believe we should allow thousands of violent felons to be released early from prison, nor do I believe we should reduce sentences for violent offenders in the future.
~ Tom Cotton
The broad consensus is that our system should be better structured to deter crimes without giving up on everyone who commits them, and should better balance resources to hold violent criminals fully accountable without imposing unnecessarily harsh sentences on nonviolent offenders.
~ Bob Casey, Jr.
Too many communities are living in fear as violent crime rises. So we need to reform our justice system to keep our streets safe and protect the law-abiding majority. That means putting an end to soft sentences and punishing offenders by keeping them behind bars so that the public can be protected and the offenders can be rehabilitated.
~ Priti Patel
Federal law provides very powerful tools, such as strict mandatory sentences, to go after repeat violent offenders who are illegally in the possession of a gun.
~ Mike DeWine
IDENTIFICATION When victimization takes place the victim often identifies with the persecutor. By so doing the victim no longer feels the helplessness and the shame of humiliation of the victimization. Persecuting offenders were often previously victims who identified with their offenders. In identifying they no longer have to feel the shame.
~ John Bradshaw
In the progressive narrative, America is to blame, and the first offenders were the Founders themselves. The progressive conclusion is that the founding was "defective," setting up the progressive agenda to replace and move away from founding principles, what Obama called the "remaking" of America.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Politicians who justify the lockdown craze often argue that we are ridding our streets and neighborhoods of violent offenders and feared super predators. Policy-makers thus play again on the public's "common sense" assumption that prisons "keep the innocent safe from the guilty.
~ Unknown
It is cynical, often hypocritical, and self-defeating to declare all drug offenders violent and then withdraw from them, especially from the poor among them, the resources needed to redress the problems that create drug use.
~ Unknown
The first rule of modern commercial media is you're allowed to screw up, in concert. So there was no reckoning for the WMD mess. The chief offenders kept perches or failed up.
~ Matt Taibbi
I'd observed that repeat offenders were the easiest to deal with, treating their lawyers with something akin to professional courtesy. All they wanted was a deal. It was only the first timers who bothered to tell you they were innocent.
~ Unknown
On the whole, "offenders" are foods we tend to eat compulsively, with less actual pleasure than you might think. Often they are poor versions of something better.
~ Mireille Guiliano