How Large Should the Strike Zone Be in “Three Strikes and You're Out” Sentencing Laws?
So-called “three strikes and you're out” sentencing laws for criminal offenders have proliferated in the United States. The laws vary considerably in their definitions of what constitutes a “strike.” This paper adapts the classic Poisson process model of criminal offending to investigate how va...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2001
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Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2001, Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 227-246 |
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