Punishment and Democracy: Three Strikes and You're Out in California by Franklin

Description: Punishment and Democracy by Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins, Sam Kamin Offers an analysis of the politics and impact of get tough criminal sentencing legislation. This work examines the origins of the law in California, compares it to other laws, and analyses large samples of offenders arrested in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. It is suitable for policy analysts, criminal justice scholars, and others. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "Getting tough on crime" has been one of the favorite rallying cries of American politicians in the last two decades, and "getting tough" on repeat offenders has been particularly popular. "Three strikes and youre out" laws, which effectively impose a 25-years-to-life sentence at the moment of a third felony conviction, have been passed in 26 states. Californias version of the "three strikes" law, enacted in 1994, was broader and more severe than measuresconsidered or passed in any other state. Punishment and Democracy is the first examination of the actual impact this law has had. Franklin Zimring, Sam Kamin, and Gordon Hawkins lookat the origins of the law in California, compare it to other crackdown laws, and analyze the data collected on crime rates in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco in the year before and the two years after the law went into effect. They show that the "three strikes" law was a significant development in criminal justice policy making, not only at the state level, but also at the national level. They conclude with an examination of the trend toward populist initiatives driving penalpolicy. The importance of the subject and the stature of the authors make this book required reading for policy analysts, criminal justice scholars, elected officials, and indeed anyAmerican seeking to know more about "get-tough" criminal sentencing. Author Biography Franklin E. Zimring is William G. Simon Professor of Law and Director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of American Youth Violence (Oxford, 1998) and co-author (with Gordon Hawkins) of Crime Is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America (Oxford, 1997) and Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime (Oxford, 1995).Gordon G. Hawkins is a Senior Fellow at the Earl Warren Legal Institute and the former Director of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Sydney.Sam Kamin is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Denver. Table of Contents IntroductionPart I: Origins and Structure1: Three Strikes Come to California2: The Largest Penal Experiment in American HistoryPart II: The Study3: Building a Research Design4: The Role of Recidivists in Urban California Crime5: The Impact of Three Strikes on Criminal Punishment6: Three Strikes as Crime ControlPart III: Impacts7: The Jurisprudence of Imprisonment in California8: Living with Three Strikes: Courts, Corrections, and the Political ProcessPart IV: Implications9: The Changing Politics of Criminal Punishment10: Democracy and the Governance of Criminal Punishment11: Legacies and LessonsReferencesIndex Review "Zimring, Hawkins, and Kamin have provided a wide-ranging examination of an historic development in the law....But their conclusions about the effectiveness of a law that is unique in the extremity of its terms and the revolutionary nature of its ambitions are sobering and need to be considered by both policy makers and the public."--CHOICE"[A] major study of this unique legislation.... [It] is, quite simply, required reading for anyone interested in crime policy in California, the United States in general, or any modern democratic nation....In an area drenched with emotionalism, the authors have produced a study that is analytically incisive in setting up its categories, conscientious in collecting its data, and judicious in reaching its conclusions. It is also highly readable."--Law andPolitics Book Review"Ever since Californias Three Strikes and Youre Out law was adopted, supporters and opponents have debated its effects on the crime rate and on the criminal justice system with far more heat than light. Now, for the first time, Frank Zimring and his colleagues provide hard data based on careful evaluation of the evidence, amplified by valuable insights into the relationship between punishment policy and the political process. Some of their findings aresurprising, and neither side will be entirely pleased with the results, but the authors meticulous research and well reasoned analysis provide an extremely valuable resource for judging what they aptlydescribe as "the largest penal experiment in American history."--Joseph Grodin, former Associate Justice, California Supreme Court and John F.DiGardi Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California Hastings College of the Law"An authoritative and convincing account of how the Three Strikes law came to be, and its impact on crime in California. There is also a wide-ranging discussion of how the law fits in to some larger social phenomena, including the politics of punishment and the way in which levels of trust in government have fallen. This would be a better society, with more just and humane policies, if people in authority read and paid attention to this brilliant,closely-reasoned, and intensely significant book."--Lawrence Friedman, Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law, Stanford Law School"This book tells two important stories, with authority and clarity. The first is a sobering account of the genesis and impact of Californias three strikes law, a cautionary tale of one states experiment in establishing sentencing policy through direct democracy. On another level, this book raises profound questions about the direction of criminal justice policy in America and provides rich insights and fresh analysis that, if heeded, could guide a return topolicies that are both more principled and more practical."--Jeremy Travis, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and former director of the National Institute of Justice"Zimring, Hawkins, and Kamin have provided a wide-ranging examination of an historic development in the law....But their conclusions about the effectiveness of a law that is unique in the extremity of its terms and the revolutionary nature of its ambitions are sobering and need to be considered by both policy makers and the public."--CHOICE"[A] major study of this unique legislation.... [It] is, quite simply, required reading for anyone interested in crime policy in California, the United States in general, or any modern democratic nation....In an area drenched with emotionalism, the authors have produced a study that is analytically incisive in setting up its categories, conscientious in collecting its data, and judicious in reaching its conclusions. It is also highly readable."--Law andPolitics Book Review"Ever since Californias Three Strikes and Youre Out law was adopted, supporters and opponents have debated its effects on the crime rate and on the criminal justice system with far more heat than light. Now, for the first time, Frank Zimring and his colleagues provide hard data based on careful evaluation of the evidence, amplified by valuable insights into the relationship between punishment policy and the political process. Some of their findings aresurprising, and neither side will be entirely pleased with the results, but the authors meticulous research and well reasoned analysis provide an extremely valuable resource for judging what they aptlydescribe as "the largest penal experiment in American history."--Joseph Grodin, former Associate Justice, California Supreme Court and John F.DiGardi Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California Hastings College of the Law"An authoritative and convincing account of how the Three Strikes law came to be, and its impact on crime in California. There is also a wide-ranging discussion of how the law fits in to some larger social phenomena, including the politics of punishment and the way in which levels of trust in government have fallen. This would be a better society, with more just and humane policies, if people in authority read and paid attention to this brilliant,closely-reasoned, and intensely significant book."--Lawrence Friedman, Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law, Stanford Law School"This book tells two important stories, with authority and clarity. The first is a sobering account of the genesis and impact of Californias three strikes law, a cautionary tale of one states experiment in establishing sentencing policy through direct democracy. On another level, this book raises profound questions about the direction of criminal justice policy in America and provides rich insights and fresh analysis that, if heeded, could guide a return topolicies that are both more principled and more practical."--Jeremy Travis, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and former director of the National Institute of Justice"This book is an exemplar of criminology, the science of law-making, law-breaking, and law-enforcing. Few criminologists have ever succeeded as well in answering all three questions about such an important legal change. Punishment and Democracy will stand for years as both a substantive and methodological landmark."--Lawrence W. Sherman, Greenfield Professor of Human Relations and Director, Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania"Reading this book should be penance and a must read for California Governors and legislators, past and present, who helped make this ill-conceived law a reality. [It] should be helpful to public policy makers throughout the United States as they contemplate better crime control measures."--John Van de Kamp, former Attorney General for California Promotional A comprehensive treatment of the politics and the impact of "get tough" criminal sentencing laws in the U.S. Long Description "Getting tough on crime" has been one of the favorite rallying cries of American politicians in the last two decades, and "getting tough" on repeat offenders has been particularly popular. "Three strikes and youre out" laws, which effectively impose a 25-years-to-life sentence at the moment of a third felony conviction, have been passed in 26 states. Californias version of the "three strikes" law, enacted in 1994, was broader and more severe than measuresconsidered or passed in any other state. Punishment and Democracy is the first examination of the actual impact this law has had. Franklin Zimring, Sam Kamin, and Gordon Hawkins lookat the origins of the law in California, compare it to other crackdown laws, and analyze the data collected on crime rates in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco in the year before and the two years after the law went into effect. They show that the "three strikes" law was a significant development in criminal justice policy making, not only at the state level, but also at the national level. They conclude with an examination of the trend toward populist initiatives driving penalpolicy. The importance of the subject and the stature of the authors make this book required reading for policy analysts, criminal justice scholars, elected officials, and indeed anyAmerican seeking to know more about "get-tough" criminal sentencing. Review Text "Zimring, Hawkins, and Kamin have provided a wide-ranging examination of an historic development in the law....But their conclusions about the effectiveness of a law that is unique in the extremity of its terms and the revolutionary nature of its ambitions are sobering and need to be considered by both policy makers and the public."--CHOICE"[A] major study of this unique legislation.... [It] is, quite simply, required reading for anyone interested in crime policy in California, the United States in general, or any modern democratic nation....In an area drenched with emotionalism, the authors have produced a study that is analytically incisive in setting up its categories, conscientious in collecting its data, and judicious in reaching its conclusions. It is also highly readable."--Law andPolitics Book Review"Ever since Californias Three Strikes and Youre Out law was adopted, supporters and opponents have debated its effects on the crime rate and on the criminal justice system with far more heat than light. Now, for the first time, Frank Zimring and his colleagues provide hard data based on careful evaluation of the evidence, amplified by valuable insights into the relationship between punishment policy and the political process. Some of their findings aresurprising, and neither side will be entirely pleased with the results, but the authors meticulous research and well reasoned analysis provide an extremely valuable resource for judging what they aptlydescribe as "the largest penal experiment in American history."--Joseph Grodin, former Associate Justice, California Supreme Court and John F.DiGardi Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California Hastings College of the Law"An authoritative and convincing account of how the Three Strikes law came to be, and its impact on crime in California. There is also a wide-ranging discussion of how the law fits in to some larger social phenomena, including the politics of punishment and the way in which levels of trust in government have fallen. This would be a better society, with more just and humane policies, if people in authority read and paid attention to this brilliant,closely-reasoned, and intensely significant book."--Lawrence Friedman, Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law, Stanford Law School"This book tells two important stories, with authority and clarity. The first is a sobering account of the genesis and impact of Californias three strikes law, a cautionary tale of one states experiment in establishing sentencing policy through direct democracy. On another level, this book raises profound questions about the direction of criminal justice policy in America and provides rich insights and fresh analysis that, if heeded, could guide a return topolicies that are both more principled and more practical."--Jeremy Travis, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and former director of the National Institute of Justice"Zimring, Hawkins, and Kamin have provided a wide-ranging examination of an historic development in the law....But their conclusions about the effectiveness of a law that is unique in the extremity of its terms and the revolutionary nature of its ambitions are sobering and need to be considered by both policy makers and the public."--CHOICE"[A] major study of this unique legislation.... [It] is, quite simply, required reading for anyone interested in crime policy in California, the United States in general, or any modern democratic nation....In an area drenched with emotionalism, the authors have produced a study that is analytically incisive in setting up its categories, conscientious in collecting its data, and judicious in reaching its conclusions. It is also highly readable."--Law andPolitics Book Review"Ever since Californias Three Strikes and Youre Out law was adopted, supporters and opponents have debated its effects on the crime rate and on the criminal justice system with far more heat than light. Now, for the first time, Frank Zimring and his colleagues provide hard data based on careful evaluation of the evidence, amplified by valuable insights into the relationship between punishment policy and the political process. Some of their findings aresurprising, and neither side will be entirely pleased with the results, but the authors meticulous research and well reasoned analysis provide an extremely valuable resource for judging what they aptlydescribe as "the largest penal experiment in American history."--Joseph Grodin, former Associate Justice, California Supreme Court and John F.DiGardi Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California Hastings College of the Law"An authoritative and convincing account of how the Three Strikes law came to be, and its impact on crime in California. There is also a wide-ranging discussion of how the law fits in to some larger social phenomena, including the politics of punishment and the way in which levels of trust in government have fallen. This would be a better society, with more just and humane policies, if people in authority read and paid attention to this brilliant,closely-reasoned, and intensely significant book."--Lawrence Friedman, Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law, Stanford Law School"This book tells two important stories, with authority and clarity. The first is a sobering account of the genesis and impact of Californias three strikes law, a cautionary tale of one states experiment in establishing sentencing policy through direct democracy. On another level, this book raises profound questions about the direction of criminal justice policy in America and provides rich insights and fresh analysis that, if heeded, could guide a return topolicies that are both more principled and more practical."--Jeremy Travis, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and former director of the National Institute of Justice"This book is an exemplar of criminology, the science of law-making, law-breaking, and law-enforcing. Few criminologists have ever succeeded as well in answering all three questions about such an important legal change. Punishment and Democracy will stand for years as both a substantive and methodological landmark."--Lawrence W. Sherman, Greenfield Professor of Human Relations and Director, Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania"Reading this book should be penance and a must read for California Governors and legislators, past and present, who helped make this ill-conceived law a reality. [It] should be helpful to public policy makers throughout the United States as they contemplate better crime control measures."--John Van de Kamp, former Attorney General for California Review Quote "Zimring, Hawkins, and Kamin have provided a wide-ranging examination of an historic development in the law....But their conclusions about the effectiveness of a law that is unique in the extremity of its terms and the revolutionary nature of its ambitions are sobering and need to be considered by both policy makers and the public."--CHOICE "[A] major study of this unique legislation.... [It] is, quite simply, required reading for anyone interested in crime policy in California, the United States in general, or any modern democratic nation....In an area drenched with emotionalism, the authors have produced a study that is analytically incisive in setting up its categories, conscientious in collecting its data, and judicious in reaching its conclusions. It is also highly readable."--Law and Politics Book Review "Ever since Californias Three Strikes and Youre Out law was adopted, supporters and opponents have debated its effects on the crime rate and on the criminal justice system with far more heat than light. Now, for the first time, Frank Zimring and his colleagues provide hard data based on careful evaluation of the evidence, amplified by valuable insights into the relationship between punishment policy and the political process. Some of their findings are surprising, and neither side will be entirely pleased with the results, but the authors meticulous research and well reasoned analysis provide an extremely valuable resource for judging what they aptly describe as "the largest penal experiment in American history."--Joseph Grodin, former Associate Justice, California Supreme Court and John F.DiGardi Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California Hastings College of the Law "An authoritative and convincing account of how the Three Strikes law came to be, and its impact on crime in California. There is also a wide-ranging discussion of how the law fits in to some larger social phenomena, including the politics of punishment and the way in which levels of trust in government have fallen. This would be a better society, with more just and humane policies, if people in authority read and paid attention to this brilliant, closely-reasoned, and intensely significant book."--Lawrence Friedman, Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law, Stanford Law School "This book tells two important stories, with authority and clarity. The first is a sobering account of the genesis and impact of Californias three strikes law, a cautionary tale of one states experiment in establishing sentencing policy through direct democracy. On another level, this book raises profound questions about the direction of criminal justice policy in America and provides rich insights and fresh analysis that, if heeded, could guide a return to policies that are both more principled and more practical."--Jeremy Travis, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and former director of the National Institute of Justice Feature A comprehensive treatment of the politics and the impact of "get tough" criminal sentencing laws in the U.S.Includes a major empirical study of Californias controversial "three strikes" law Details ISBN0195171179 Author Sam Kamin Short Title PUNISHMENT & DEMOCRACY Language English ISBN-10 0195171179 ISBN-13 9780195171174 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2003 Subtitle Three Strikes and Youre Out in California Birth 1919 Residence CA, US Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9780195171174 UK Release Date 2003-12-11 AU Release Date 2003-12-11 NZ Release Date 2003-12-11 US Release Date 2003-12-11 Pages 256 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Series Studies in Crime and Public Policy Publication Date 2003-12-11 Alternative 9780195136869 DEWEY 364.650973 Illustrations Illus. 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