I have done a lot of thinking about this paper and tried to come up if I am in favor or not of the three strikes legislation. Once I started my research and found out about California's laws, I was very much in favor of the legislation. My paper is going to argue the "in favor" side of the three strikes legislation.
California's "Three strikes and you're out" legislation has been called "the largest penal experiment in American history." California's three strikes law is the harshest recidivism statute in the country and it increases punishments sharply and discontinuously at the 3rd strike (Zimring, Hawkins and Kamin 2001). California's three strikes law took effect in March of 1994. A "strike" is a conviction for a serious or violent felony as these are laid out in the California Penal Code, examples of strikes include murder, rape, robbery, attempted murder, assault with intent to rape or rob, any felony resulting in bodily harm, arson, kidnapping, grand theft with firearm,......

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Title: Three Strikes Legislation
Approximate Word Count: 956
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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