Unjust sentencing and the California Three Strikes law /

Unjust sentencing and the California Three Strikes law /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kieso, Douglas W.
Imprint:	New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2005.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 286 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Criminal justice : recent scholarship Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Subject:	Mandatory sentences -- California. Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- California. Mandatory sentences. Sentences (Criminal procedure) California. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11143174

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ISBN:	1593321902 9781593321901 9781593320942 1593320949
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-284) and index. Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: Kieso, Douglas W. Unjust sentencing and the California Three Strikes law. New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2005 1593320949

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.