Unjust sentencing and the California Three Strikes law

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kieso, Douglas W.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2005.
Series:Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • The passage of AB971
  • The social construction of common criminals in the U.S.
  • U.S. crime in the 1980s and 1990s
  • California voters
  • California initiatives and the three strikes law
  • The three strikers and the counties that created them
  • Discretion and the three strikes law
  • Los Angeles County
  • San Francisco and Alameda Counties
  • Kern, Kings, and Del Norte Counties
  • Orange County
  • Policy research and constitutional analysis
  • The element of randomness and lack of democracy
  • The politics of three strikes after 1994
  • Justice and democracy
  • Recommendations.