It also imposes life in prison for a third conviction. II. Proposition 184, the three strikes law, was imposed to sentence repeat criminals with harsher sentence A. California’s current “three strikes” law B. The original law was approved in 1994 C. The California Supreme Court has judges presiding over such cases D. Proposition 36 went into effect on July 1, 2001 III. Pros and Cons on the “Three Strikes” law A.
Monday, January 14, 2008 Pros and Cons Three Strike Law Is the three-strikes law, which provides mandatory 25-to-life sentences for a third felony conviction, a good idea? In a Nutshell Yes No It provides a fix for a flawed justice system so that repeat offenders stay in prison. The law provides a very effective deterrent after the 2nd conviction. The media distorts the true effectiveness of the law by showing trivial cases (like someone stealing pizza) rather than the usual perpetrators. The law applies to 3 convictions, not 3 crimes (i.e.
With the legalization of marijuana brought about in California, there would be a drastic reduction of crime in a broad range of areas. Firstly, with marijuana legalized, the state jailing system could make more room for actual criminals, under the new law, by removing almost 80,000 inmates who are currently being detained under marijuana charges and as many as 50,000 of them, at least, being charged only on misdemeanor suspicion. With this immense amount of extra room created in the jailing facilities, police work would be more greatly and justly rewarded when the criminals they capture actually have a place to serve out there sentence, rather than being released early with a slap on the wrist due to overcrowding. Without focusing on the unscientific myths of marijuana the herbal plant is, at most, a euphoric intoxicant, an herb that induces sleep, hunger, happiness, and or drowsiness, no effects that have ever been proven to cause violence or harmful acts to ones self or other, while alcohol and other inebriants are regularly sold in corner stores and markets across the country, causing pain, sickness, and death to those who partake without responsible regard, and even to some who do. Crime in California, in regard to marijuana, is often due to gang members robbing each other over turf to sell illegal marijuana, over marijuana fields being robbed by other gangs, groups, and common
This program studies what criminals do, and how they do it, so they can counter react that and make it impossible for them to do it at a particular time. Now this is not bulletproof because the crimes still happen, but statistics show its decreasing and maybe with the help of this theory. Then the National Crime Victimization Survey, helps too because they are useful tools of information. They take the surveys seriously, and they find that majority of the people who take the survey have not reported the crime or crimes that they have been a victim in. Not only that, but it makes out statistics more accurate than before because now we have the ones that never reported.
So, while politicians talk about the “desperate prison crisis”, we should think about where the actual desperation really lies. The problem is that we need to stop incarcerating vast amounts of non-violent offenders for 25 years to life. Non-violent criminals with minor offenses should not be dictated under the three-strike law. Even with this simple change in the three-strike law, our society would save more money funding other alternatives such as prime prevention strategies. These strategies include programs designed to reduce repeat victimization in domestic burglary, theft, and any other violence.
They are just like us, but for what they have done to become a felon must have been hard for them to make a choice like that. People; don’t interact with them, because they have that view on them as being a murder. So Do you believe felons should
Crime data Comparison CJA/314: Criminology Instructor: Chris Hammond By: Christine Kishlock Student: University of Phoenix Crime is a process that takes place when a law is broken; these laws are set in place to keep society at a social normal. When these laws are broken people normally report these activities but in the day and present time it has been more aware to criminal justice officials that most of the criminal behavior is not being reported. In this short comparison paper I will be going over to different metropolitan areas and comparing the rates in crime in a crime category. California holds several different metropolitan areas some are more wide spread than others and can go as far as half the state. The
The three strikes law was implemented in 1993, it was created to act as a strong deterrent as well as to identify and incarcerate habitual offenders by enforcing minimum sentence lengths. The advocates of the law propose that it keeps violent and serious criminals behind bars therefore reducing crime rate. Those opposed suggest it overfills our prisons with aging criminals that eventually hamstring our economy. Overall I believe the three strikes law does more good than harm, and Ill examine articles that go deeper into these matters. According to Eugene H. Methvin, a large portion of violent crime can be prevented with an effective strategy of identifying and incarcerating the individual, keeping him/her off the streets; saving society much
If they are negative for drugs then they should still receive welfare, while still being watched and on probation for another year. On the other hand, if they are tested positive for drugs in the following year I believe they should be arrested. It’s already against the law to do drugs so it is not like we are treating them differently than any other American. Those going to jail actually may be a better lifestyle for some of them. Jail can be looked at either a punishment or a chance to change their life for the
If governments wanted to spend less on prison without suffering an increase in crime they needed to look for ways of stopping people reoffending and returning to prison. ''If we just divert people from prison and do nothing to stop them reoffending, the money we save on prison will be spent responding to an increase in crime,'' he said. The Attorney-General, Greg Smith, said the study results confirmed the O'Farrell government's approach to law and