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This paper explores the three strikes law and the reason behind its failure. The paper opens with the usual argument that the law has not lowered violent crime. The paper then moves on to the matter of what the law was also intended to do in American ghettoes much changed by the 1980s arrival of crack cocaine and gang activity. The Three Strikes law is almsot never reported for its ability to remove chronic offenders from ghetto areas, as can be much supported by those who live in them, as opposed to liberal intellectuals opposed to models of deterrence or notions of diverting funds from corrections to 'education' or 'social services'.

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"Approaches to `getting tough' on crime in the United States of the 1990s showed commitment to what seems deterrence, as in the Three Strikes effort permitting tough sentences for repeat offenders. Over years, it was see that the law had no impact on crime rates or the nature of offenses as states continued to follow the example of California in 1994, towards varied crime statistics verifying, yet again, the ineffectiveness of deterrence models. What is absent from this kind of research is exploration of what Three Strike laws have been intended to achieve. One ..."

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