A ten strike law preventing people from leaving prison after that many violent crime convictions would reduce period violent crime by 20%
Five strikes would cut violent crime by 40%
Three strikes would halve violent crime
Two strikes would remove ~two-thirds of violent crime
Five strikes would cut violent crime by 40%
Three strikes would halve violent crime
Two strikes would remove ~two-thirds of violent crime
And this is just giving strikes for violent criminal convictions. Most violent criminals do other crimes too.
If you instead used *any* convictions, you could cut crime even more, but you would probably see prisons overflowing with ne'er-do-wells.
If you instead used *any* convictions, you could cut crime even more, but you would probably see prisons overflowing with ne'er-do-wells.
Give strikes for *arrests* and, man, there goes the crime.
Source: link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Source: link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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