Three Strikes and You're Out Estimated Benefits and Costs of California's New Mandatory-Sentencing Law

by Greenwood, P. W.; Rydell, C. P.; Abrahamse, A. F.; Caulkins, J. P.; Chiesa, J. R.

• ISBN13: 9780833015976
• ISBN10: 0833015974
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-05-17
• Publisher: RAND Corporation

Summary

The authors report on the benefits and costs of California's new mandatory-sentencing law, which provides for progressively longer sentences with an increasing number of prior convictions for serious felonies.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. iii
Summary	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Sentencing Alternatives for Repeat Offenders	p. 4
How the Analysis Was D1	p. 10
Benefits and Costs of the Sentencing Alternatives	p. 17
Footing the Bill	p. 31
the Jones Three-Strikes Law	p. 37
Classification of Crimes as Serious or Violent	p. 44
Tabular Specification of Alternatives	p. 48
Parameter Estimates	p. 53
Model Implementation	p. 65
References	p. 69
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