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Too Much Democracy or Too Much Crime? Lessons from California's Three-Strikes Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Gary LaFree
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , Autumn 2002 , pp. 875 - 902
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2002 

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