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1 " I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease. "
― G.K. Chesterton , Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State
2 " A vast amount of psychiatric effort has been, and continues to be, devoted to legal and quasi-legal activities. In my opinion, the only certain result has been the aggrandizement of psychiatry. The value to the legal profession and to society as a whole of psychiatric help in administering the criminal law, is, to say the least, uncertain. Perhaps society has been injured, rather than helped, by the furor psychodiagnosticus and psychotherapeuticus in criminology which it invited, fostered, and tolerated. "
― Thomas Szasz , Law, Liberty and Psychiatry
3 " All the studies and all the research in the field of criminology affirm that prison education is the least expensive and most effective solution to overcrowding and strain on the budget caused by recevidism. "
― Christopher Zoukis , College for Convicts: The Case for Higher Education in American Prisons
