Three Strikes and You're Out in California
by
Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins, Sam Kamin
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
"Getting tough on crime" has been one of the favorite rallying cries of American politicians in the last two decades, and "getting tough" on repeat offenders has been particularly popular. "Three strikes and you're out" laws, which effectively impose a 25-years-to-life sentence at the moment of a...