Punishment and Democracy
Three Strikes and You're Out in California (Studies in Crime and Public Policy X)
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Publication
2001-01-22 - Oxford University Press, USA
Language
English
Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivepunishmentdemocr00zimr
- Internet Archivepunishmentdemocr0000zimr_j3w3
- ISBN-100195136861
- ISBN-139780195136869
- Goodreads7262653
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- LibraryThing730245
- Library of Congress Control Number00036323
- OCLC Control Number123099031
- Better World Books9780195136869
- Open LibraryOL7389244M
Classifications
- LCCHV9305.C2 Z58 2001
- LCCHV9305.C2Z58 2001
- LCCHV 9305 C2 Z58 2001
and 1 more
- LCCHV9305.C2 Z58 2000
Description
"Punishment and Democracy is an analysis of the politics and impact of "get tough" criminal sentencing legislation. Franklin Zimring, Gordon Hawkins, and Sam Kamin examine the origins of the law in California, compare it to other crackdown laws, and analyze large samples of offenders arrested in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco in the year before and the two years after the law went into effect. They show that the Three Strikes law was a significant development in criminal justice policy-making, not only at the state level, but also at the national level. The study presents compelling evidence, however, that the new regime has been enormously over-rated as a crime prevention measure. The book also examines the new politics of criminal punishment in the United States and the proper role of citizen preferences in the governance of criminal punishment. In its scrutiny of California's Three Strikes law, Punishment and Democracy extracts crucial lessons about democracy and criminal justice in America."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
What makes the story of Three Strikes unusual in the annals of state government is that California's Three Strikes proposal was the ultimate "outside the beltway" legislation.
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