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

him any respect.” Reynolds’s own
words contradict the logic of Three
Strikes. Joe Davis killed Kimber
Reynolds because she would not give
him the respect he thought he deserved
as he held a gun to her head and
grabbed at her purse. How on earth
does changing the severity of punishment
deter someone whose brain works like
that? You and I are sensitive to
increased punishment, because you and I
are people with a stake in society. But
criminals aren’t. As the criminologist
David Kennedy writes: “It may simply
be that those who stand ready today to
take a chance, often on impulse, often
while impaired, on what they view as a