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Title: Punishment and Democracy: Three Strikes and You're Out in California (Studies in Crime and Public Policy (Paperback)) by Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins, Sam Kamin ISBN: 0-19-517117-9 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A crucial analysis of a dangerous problem
Comment: I'll be using this analysis for my Public Policy course. Zimring has done a great job, and is again bound to offend the simple & easily offended.

This book describes how one expecially and literally thoughtless program (3 strikes) was made into law, and how a more rational & legally coherent (10-20-life) competing policy was essentially ignored. Combining data, interviews, and relevent social research (i.e. mobilization theory, media effects, pressure groups, legislative lack of backbone by both Repubs & Dems) he shows how not to make public policy.

Rating: 1
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: This is an important topic, but the empirical work in this book is at the level of the average newspaper. The work doesn't even take into account that all counties in California didn't follow the rules. What about simultaneously trying to account for arrest rate and conviction rates or changes in any other factors that affect crime?

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