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A 5 page research paper on the 'Three Strikes and You're Out Law' which limits the ability of violent offenders to receive a punishment other than a prison sentence. The writer concludes that the rule does have several inherent flaws but that it can be improved greatly through proposed reforms. Bibliography cites 5 sources.
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as critics examine its reliability, effectiveness, and even its economical sense. Definitively, the law significantly increases the prison sentences of persons convicted of felonies who have been previously convicted
of a "violent" or "serious" felony, and it limits the ability of these offenders to receive a punishment other than a prison sentence. "Violent" and "serious" felonies are specifically listed
in most state laws as is the case in California. Violent offenses include murder, robbery of a residence in which a deadly or dangerous weapon is used, rape and other
sex offenses; serious offenses include the same offenses defined as violent offenses, but also include other crimes such as burglary of a residence and assault with intent to commit a
robbery or rape (Ingley, 1995). Those who oppose the law assert that the more draconian the sentence, the less (on the average) the chance of its
being imposed; plea bargains see to that. And the most draconian sentences will, of necessity, tend to fall on adult offenders nearing the end of their criminal careers and not
on the young ones who are in their criminally most productive years. (The peak ages of criminality are reportedly between sixteen and eighteen; the average age of prison inmates is
ten years older.) (Allenye, 1996; Reynolds, 1995). It is commonly believed by those who frown upon the Three Strikes Law that almost every judge will give first-, second-, or
even third-time offenders a break, reserving the heaviest sentences for those men who have finally exhausted judicial patience or optimism (NPR, 1994). Advocates claim that it
is just such leniency which laws that say "three strikes and youre out" make an effort to change. But those advocates are then confronted with the fact that
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