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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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A crucial analysis of a dangerous problem
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...
Published on January 8, 2002 by Tom Durkin
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3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Disappointing
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?
Published on December 13, 2001 by Economist123
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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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A crucial analysis of a dangerous problem,
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This review is from: Punishment and Democracy: Three Strikes and You're Out in California (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) (Hardcover)
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.
3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing,
This review is from: Punishment and Democracy: Three Strikes and You're Out in California (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) (Hardcover)
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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Punishment and Democracy: Three Strikes and You're Out in California (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) by Franklin E. Zimring (Hardcover - February 15, 2001)
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