Florida's 10-20-Life Laws

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses Florida's 10-20-life laws with regard to juvenile offenders. It begins by introducing gun crimes in general and then focuses on Florida laws specifically. The paper hypothesizes that juvenile offenders within Alachua county will be unaffected by the 10-20-life advertising campaigns and that the majority of youth offenders surveyed by the researcher will not grasp the severity of punishments for crimes committed with guns.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1:Introduction
Chapter 2:Literature Review
Chapter 3
Methodology
3.1 Procedures And Recruitment
3.2 Participants 3.3 Instrumentation 3.4 Data Management 3.5 Operationalization Of Variables
3.6 Design And Analysis
3.7 Compliance With Ethical Guidelines
Chapter 4:
Results
Chapter 5
Discussion
Conclusion Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C
Appendix D

From the Paper:

"In 1998, Governor Jeb Bush proposed a gun-crime law in Florida known as 10-20-life (775.087 of the Florida Statutes). Under 10-20-life, an offender who uses a gun to commit a crime would face at least 10 years in state prison. If that person shot the gun, 10-20-life increased the mandatory prison sentence to 20 years. If the offender shot someone, the 10-20-life law increased the mandatory prison sentence to 25 years to life. In addition, this proposal created a new mandatory three year prison term for any felon who even possessed a gun, regardless of whether the felon used the gun during a crime."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Agresti, Alan and Finlay, Barbara (1999). Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences 3rd edition Prentice Hall Publishing. New Jersey.
• Bachman, Ron and Paternostar, Raymond (1997). Statistical Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice. Mcgraw Hill Publishing. New York.
• Blakely v. Washington (02-1632) 542 U.S. 296 (2004) 111 Wash. App. 851, 47 P.3d 149.
• Britt, Chester, III, Gary Kleck, and David J. Bordua. (1996). A reassessment of the D.C. gun law: some cautionary notes on the use of interrupted time series designs for policy impact assessment. Law & Society Review 30:361-380.
• Brooks, A. (2005). Standing Committee on Justice, Human Rights, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. 38th Parliament, Number 061, 1st Session; Canada.

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