Unjust sentencing and the California Three Strikes law
By: Douglas W. Kieso.
Series: Criminal justice : recent scholarship; Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Mandatory sentences -- California.; Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- California.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: The passage of AB971; title: The social construction of common criminals in the U.S.; title: U.S. crime in the 1980s and 1990s; title: California voters; title: California initiatives and the three strikes law; title: The three strikers and the counties that created them; title: Discretion and the three strikes law; title: Los Angeles County; title: San Francisco and Alameda Counties; title: Kern, Kings, and Del Norte Counties; title: Orange County; title: Policy research and constitutional analysis; title: The element of randomness and lack of democracy; title: The politics of three strikes after 1994; title: Justice and democracy; title: Recommendations.