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Unjust sentencing and the California Three Strikes law / Douglas W. Kieso.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kieso, Douglas W.
- Series:
- Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
- Criminal justice : recent scholarship
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mandatory sentences--California.
- Mandatory sentences.
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)--California.
- Sentences (Criminal procedure).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-284) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-59332-190-2
- OCLC:
- 65671040
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