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The Three Strikes Law had the intention of limiting recidivism. However, numerous studies suggest that declines in recidivism have been negligible. This is another unintended consequence of the Three Strikes Law; the general failure to curb third offenses. Violent crimes have dropped in urban areas in California, but those declines are in line with declines in surrounding states, indicating no impact made by the Three Strikes Law (Beale, 2010). The results of other states that have similar multiple offender penalties demonstrate a mixture of results that fail to conclude the efficacy of the Three Strikes policy. (1994, February 4). Prison overcrowding. Will building more prisons cut the crime rate? CQ Researcher, 4(5), 97-120. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/
Beale, S. (2010). The Story of Ewing v. California: Three Strikes Laws and the Limits of the Eighth
Amendment Proportionality Review. Social Science Research Network. Retrieved March 30, 2011 from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1650021
Haley, J. (2005). Prisons: Current controversies. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press.
Richey, W. (2010). California at Supreme Court, Fights Judicial Order on Prison Overcrowding. Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved March 28, 2011 from http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2010/1130/California-at-Supreme-Court-fights-judicial-order-on-prison-overcrowding.
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Tyler, T. (1997). Three Strikes and You're Out, but Why? The Psychology of Public Support
for Rule Breakers. Law & Society Review, vol. 31, 2, pp. 23-246.
PA: Mason Crest Publishers.
Tyler, T. (1997). Three Strikes and You're Out, but Why? The Psychology of Public Support
for Rule Breakers. Law & Society Review, vol. 31, 2, pp. 23-246.
During this penultimate period of violence under Rojas, the violence that wracked Colombia assumed a number of different characteristics that included an economic quality as well as a political one with numerous assassinations taking place. These were literally contract killings there were sponsored by opposition forms. There were also horrendous genocidal acts that were carried out by gangs combined with authentic revolutionary fighting in some regions of the country. The fourth
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