One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
It's about taking the time to research and think things out. Honest people and criminals do the same thing; just the direction, good or bad, is different.
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do.
The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.