Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> LA Criminal Defense Blog

Criminal Law

: LA Criminal Defense Blog

Does California’s Three Strikes Law Really Reduce Crime?

By Steven Rodriguez

Battling statistics are being used — in New Zealand of all places — to debate California’s Three Strikes Law and whether it has actually reduced the crime rate. Why? Because the small island nation near Australia is considering implementing a Three Strikes Law. While the New Zealand proposal is significantly different from California’s Three Strikes Law and those of the 22 other U.S. states that have introduced Three Strikes legislation, it hasn’t stopped NZ politicians from spouting California statistics to support their cause. NZ politician David Garrett’s claim that California’s “three strikes and you’re out” laws have reduced homicide and robbery convictions in California by 50% has opponents crying “foul...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on February 25, 2009 (boomark / email).