Activities From Chapter 8 Of Crime Prevention: Court Initiatives

Three Strikes
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The essence of the three strikes lied in the formulation of a regulation that would help put away repeat offenders of violent crime. In this case, such a criminal was subject to life imprisonment if he or she was convicted of violent crime, for the third time. This legislation was established under the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. Under the statute, one is doomed to a mandatory life imprisonment if convicted of at least two or more counts of violent crime (Walsh, 2007). The law also provides the third crime to be any other serious crime such as a drug offense.
Under the statute, a violent crime constitutes of vices that attract a jail term of at least ten years, such as robbery, sexual offenses, murder or even kidnap. While Washington was the first to put the law into use in the early 1990s, it is California that mostly uses it today (Walsh, 2007). A few other states also use it, although most have it in an intermediate form. For example, Texas has a less punitive version of the same law, whereby one is punished through a fine, jail term or probation depending on the frequency and severity of the crime.
When it comes to the case of California, there is no theory application when exercising this law. The state has a uniform twenty five-year jail term for a criminal on the third conviction (Walsh, 2007). However, even...