General CSPS Quotes Flashcards
John Ehrlichman’s (Nixon advisor) quote on the ‘war on drugs/crime’
“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
Dostoevsky quote on prisons and civilization ?
‘The degree of civilisation in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.’
Churchill quote on the ‘unfailing test’ of civilization ?
‘The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.’
Robert Martinson’s appraisal of rehabilitation strategies ?
‘Nothing works’
1975
Cardinal Richelieu (1641) on examining an honest man ?
‘If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.’
What was Martin Luther King Jr’s famous saying about justice ?
‘justice delayed is justice denied’
context of always being told to ‘wait’/’not now’
Garland’s (1990) quote on why prisons are destined to disappoint ?
Prisons are ‘destined to disappoint bc the levers that conduce individuals to conform lie pretty much beyond the penal system’s control’.
Hamlet’s father’s ghost quote?
“Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatched, cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, no reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.”
Hamlet’s father’s ghost quote?
“Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatched, cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, no reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.”
Hamlet’s father’s ghost quote?
“Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatched, cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, no reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.”
Hamlet’s father’s ghost quote?
“Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatched, cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, no reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.”
