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

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Crime” in the Journal of the Oklahoma
Criminal Justice Research Consortium
3 (1996): 1–10.
There is an entire library of studies on
the effects of Three Strikes on
California’s crime rate. The best book-
length academic work is Zimring’s
Punishment and Democracy, mentioned
above. Here is a sample from one of the
most recent scholarly examinations of
the law. It’s from Elsa Chen’s “Impacts
of ‘Three Strikes and You’re Out’ on
Crime Trends in California and
Throughout the United States,” Journal
of Contemporary Criminal Justice 24
(November 2008): 345–70:

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