David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

a slice of pizza and it was his third strike,” he went on, “that does more to stop crime than anything else in the state.” The B ...

application of power and authority begins to backfire. Searching the first house in the Lower Falls made sense. Ransacking the e ...

power is not easy to learn. It requires that those in positions of authority accept that what they thought of as their greatest ...

hospital bed. “Daddy can fix everything, and when this happened to our daughter, it was something I couldn’t fix,” Reynolds said ...

restaurant where his daughter ate before she was killed across the street. I heard about one of those visits before I made the s ...

hand on my arm. “Do you carry a wallet?” he said. He handed me a passport-size photo of his daughter. “That was taken a month be ...

7. In 2007, the Derksens got a call from the police. “I put them off for two months,” Wilma Derksen said. What could it possibly ...

not far from the Derksens. He had a history of sexual offenses and had spent most of his adult life behind bars. In January of 2 ...

hearing that I finally looked at him, you know, and said to myself, You’re the person who killed Candace. I remember the two of ...

pleasure out of torturing her...I don’t know if it makes any sense. To me, that’s even worse than lust or rape, you know? It’s i ...

would be torturing him, too, keeping his destiny in my hands. “One day I sort of lost it a little bit in church. I was with a gr ...

her, had been hidden from me.” Derksen had been talking for a long time, and the emotion had begun to take its toll. She was tal ...

—“because I would have had many more people on my side. I probably would have been a huge advocate by now. I could have had a hu ...

his government into a fruitless and costly experiment. A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to fo ...

as far as California’s version. 2 Kennedy goes on to argue that if you examine actual criminal motivations, what you discover is ...

crime in society....No consistent body of literature has developed over the last twenty-five to thirty years indicating that har ...

opposite of its intended effect. At first, Clear couldn’t get anyone to publish it. He tried the major academic journals in his ...

So my paper was making the rounds, people were handing it to one another, and some guy at the Oklahoma Criminal Justice Research ...

for Three Strikes penalties in sentencing criminals. Some cities, like San Francisco, use it sparely. In some counties in Califo ...

and 3 percent on prisons. After two decades of Three Strikes, the state was spending more than 10 percent of its budget on priso ...