Policies in a Contemporary Global Society

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two parts first part needed Friday 7th December 2018

DUE Friday December 7th Primary Task Response: Your first task is to post your own Key Assignment Outline 400- 600 words to the discussion area so that other students are able to review your plan. Attach your document to the main discussion post, and include any notes you feel are appropriate. The purpose of this assignment is to help improve the quality of the Key Assignment Draft you will complete next week.


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In those states with the three strikes laws, any person who has 2 felony strikes and commits another felony, whether it be violent or not, can be required to serve a sentence of 25 years to life.

Look at the case of Ewing v. California:

The defendant had his third strike when he committed grand theft at a golf course in Los Angeles County. This was not a violent crime but he was subject to the three strikes laws. He appealed this case up to the United States Supreme Court—and lost.

The public has always been worried about violent crime, but just how worried are citizens about nonviolent crime? With mandatory sentencing, society will have many older inmates within the prison system. In the criminal justice community, it is known that inmates “age out of crime.” Can you imagine a 68-year-old man climbing in a window or jumping an 8-foot fence? By keeping these older inmates incarcerated, is this a disservice to society?

State prosecutors have the discretion to lower the charge so that the third offense would not be considered a third strike. For this assignment, you are a policy maker in your state legislature. You are concerned about the heavy tax burden on your constituents. The cost of the actual running of the prison and costs of personnel will rise.

You are also up for re-election, and the feedback that you have received from your constituents has shown that they are dissatisfied with the law that now stands. They are afraid of violent crimes, not just felonies, and are very aware that the last crime committed by the perpetrator does not have to be a violent crime. They are also worried about the use of their tax dollars to incarcerate nonviolent offenders.

Assignment Guidelines

  • Address the following in 5–7 pages:
    • Develop a policy regarding the three strikes laws in the State of California. Address the following in your policy:
      • What alternatives would be placed in the law to give the state prosecutor more freedom to manipulate the third strike?
      • Many prosecutors “load up” charges against defendants to force a plea bargain. What can be done to limit or prevent this practice?
      • Will your policy allow multiple counts arising from the same incident to count as multiple strikes? (For instance, a man arrested for aggravated robbery because of the use of a weapon is charged with aggravated robbery and a felony gun possession charge. Should that count as 1 strike or 2?)
      • If one of the alternatives was supervised probation, how would you convince the public that it would be more cost-effective for the person to be supervised than incarcerated?
      • Show the public where you would be saving money by not incarcerating the perpetrator.
      • If brought up in the legislature to be an amendment to the law, could this be grandfathered in to help older inmates?
      • Could this have a backlash from the public, or would they approve? How? Why?
    • Once you are finished with the policy, draft an executive summary of the policy to be used for political decision making.
  • Use 6–10 scholarly resources to support the provisions of your policy. Dictionaries and encyclopedias are not scholarly sources. Look at federal and state legislation and court cases.
  • Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

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1 Elements Required for CTU Papers By Dr. Bob Uda October 10, 2018 The examples of papers I give you are all the same, not in the data/words in them but in the “elements” within each example. The elements are those items listed as Level 2 bold subheadings below. For example, you are to follow the form, layout, and format of the example. Follow the instructions to the T that are within the required Template. Cover/Title Page Your papers should always include a cover/title page with three lines of text in the center of the cover/title page. The Running head is in the top Header of the cover/title page. It includes the page number set exactly where it should be in the required Template. Do not fiddle with the page number. If the page number creeps to the right, correct the error before uploading your paper for correcting/scoring. Running Head You should always include the Running head exactly as shown with the un-bold title of your paper in ALL CAPS in the Header of each page. 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Running head: THE THREE STRIKES LAW IN CALIFORNIA

The Three Strikes Law in California
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Institution

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THE THREE STRIKES LAW IN CALIFORNIA

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The Three Strikes Law in California
Introduction
The three strikes law in California results in a mandatory sentence of twenty-five
years to life in prison for any repeat offender convicted to three qualifying felonies. However,
the use of the three strikes law may have some discrepancies thus the need to have policies.
Policies in the criminal justice system guide the officials and are useful in cases with high
levels of discretion (Landix, 2011). Policies offer a way of dealing with the presence of crime
as well as handling the offenders. The policy to use in the three strikes rules in California
would state that any individual participating in a felony is liable to the three-strike law.
However, the three-strike would apply to repeat offenders with a history of a felony crime.
Even though some people do not agree with the three strikes law and seek the development of
a policy to guide the law, it deters crime by dramatically increasing punishment for convicted
felony offenders who have previously committed more than one felony thus discouraging
people from committing offenses because of the arrest the individual may face.
The Three Strikes Law in California
California imposed a radical new set of law and sentencing regulation in 1994 that
called for incredibly harsh penalties for previously convicted individuals for felony cases.
The primary goal for the imposition of the law is for the deterrence of individuals from
committing crimes. However, the law has resulted in some of the unjust sentences where
some of the criminal defendants receive harsh penalties for minor offenses. Such
discrepancies necessitated California to take steps to mitigate the negative consequences that
arise from the law on the sentencing provision (Chen, 2008). Even with the development of
new ways to minimize the negative consequences, the three strikes law still pose a serious
threat to individuals committing a felony with a history of p...


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