... has approximately 500 different felony offenses that can trigger the second or third strike provisions into action (Chen, 2008). From 1991 to 2008 prison and jail populations doubled, Tonry (2014) stated, "prisons and jails in 1991 held 1,219,014 inmates. The rate was 481 per 100,000 populations. By 2008, the number ... of inmates nearly doubled to 2,308,390" (p.510). An explanation for mass incarceration is the Three Strikes law ignores areas important to criminology, which leads us to youth behavior and ... crime as they mature (Siegel, 2015). According to Siegel (2015), "youth ages 1...

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... happened in the city of Chicago in 1916. Between the time of 1970's to early 1990's crime had quadrupled, property crime more than doubled over the same period. There is no actual way for one to find out the reasons behind crime but there is many reasons that may ... it. The UCR (Uniform Crime Report) has a list of reasons why crime even occurs here is the top 5. -Population density and degree of urbanization. -Effective strength of law enforcement agencies - Economic conditions including median income, poverty level and job availability. - Variations in compositions ... control and la...

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... any other. With prisons flowing full of criminals, alternative sentencing has been the top choice when dealing with adult violent offenders. Probation population has become almost two times the size compared to prison population. The number of offenders has doubled when statistics are compared over that past decades. Probation officers today deal with supervisions like house arrests and electric monitoring. These enforcements in ... , does not show the process of cases that are assigned to probation. Illinois research gives reliable information that other states could see similarities. -...

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... result in a major decrease in juvenile offenses. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reveals that between 1999 and 2000, homicides committed by youths under the age of 18 more than doubled. The cause of this sudden rise in juvenile offenses remains unknown, but the U.S. Department of Justice believes that alcohol and drugs play a major role in the lives of teenagers in ... our day of age. If punishments were made more severe, the use of illegal drugs and alcohol among the juvenile population who commit crimes would also decrease, as shown proven in a 1995 Annual Report on Drug's a...

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... went into a local store to try to get a job. He was refused work. Out of desperation he reached into the cash register and took five dollars. The store was also doubled as the town's post office. Henry Young was tried and convicted of a federal crime; mail robbery. Henry's sister was taken to live in an orphanage. He would never see her ... were Henry Young and Rufus McCain. McCain betrayed his fellow inmates by tipping off the associate warden Mr. Glenn. He was rewarded for his betrayal and left in the general population while Henry Young was sent to solitary. The federal guidelines re...

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