Chapter Eight: Wilma
Derksen
The account of the history of Three
Strikes relies on several sources, chief
among them: Mike Reynolds, Bill Jones,
and Dan Evans, Three Strikes and
You’re Out! The Chronicle of
America’s Toughest Anti-Crime Law
(Quill Driver Books/Word Dancer
Press, 1996); Joe Domanick, Cruel
Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics
of Crime in America’s Golden State
(University of California Press, 2004);
Franklin Zimring, Gordon Hawkins, and
Sam Kamin, Punishment and