go to   Web Site Links        Online Databases (RHC Students only)        Books        WebCat      Media        Articles       

Text-only version for printing

Web Site Links     top

FACTS : Families to Amend California's Three-Strikes
http://www.facts1.com/
This Web site is sponsored by "Families to Amend California's Three-Strikes", an organization that hopes to amend the law so that it applies only to violent felonies.  The site is very current with recent news & updates and includes statistics and has detailed information on specific three strikes cases, both past and present.  An interesting look at those directly involved in this issue.

Families Against Mandatory Minimums
http://www.famm.org/
This organization challenges mandatory sentencing penalties.  Promotes sentencing policies that give judges the discretion to sentence defendants according to the severity of the crime and potential for rehabilitation.  Site keeps recent articles and reports about the issue.

Families to Amend California's Three-Strikes - Statistics
http://www.facts1.com/general/stats.htm
This site is all statistics on this subject, dating back to when the three-strikes law first passed to very recently.  It is quite comprehensive and covers just about all aspects of this issue.

Legislative Analyst's Office : Three Strikes Law
http://www.lao.ca.gov/scripts/query.idq?CiScope=/&CiMaxRecordsPerPage=10&TemplateName=query&CiSort=rank[d]&HTMLQueryForm=query.htm&CiRestriction=three+strikes+law
Excellent site authored by California State's Legislative Analyst's Office.  Provides links to 200 abstracted and full text docuements on this issue, arranged in chronological order.  The linked documents include statistics and demographic information about inmates.

Online Databases (Rio Hondo Students only)    top

Issue & Controversies @ Facts.com
Search this database for in depth information on mandatory sentencing.

Books     top
The following books can be located in the Rio Hondo College Library.

Reference Books (2nd floor)
Non-circulating:

Criminal justice : opposing viewpoints
Call number: Ref HV9950.C74324 2003

Taking sides. Clashing views in crime and criminology
Call number: Ref HV6789.T25 2006

Suggested Subject Headings
For additional titles on this topic at Rio Hondo, click on the following Library of Congress subject headings:

Corrections--United States

Mandatory sentences

Prison sentences--California

WebCat     top
Use the box below to search for additional resources in Rio Hondo College Library.

Media     top
The following media can be located in the Rio Hondo College Library, to be viewed in the Library.

Crime & punishment in America
Call number: Video 000533
Brings historical perspective to the problems of escalating crime and the public's fear of it, by exploring the evolution of crime and criminal penalties in American society.

Articles   top
The Rio Hondo College Library provides online access to full-text articles through our online databases.  Please note:  you must be a Rio Hondo College student, faculty, staff or board member to use these services.

The sample searches and articles below are from the ProQuest database.  If you are viewing this subject guide from an on-campus computer, simply click on the links below.   To gain access if you are at home or off-campus, first click here: https://rioweb.rh.cc.ca.us/library/.  Input your student ID number and password [your birthdate].  You will see a list of  all the online databases to which you have access.  Click on ProQuest and enter the database.  You may conduct your own searches at this point or come back to this subject guide and click on any of the links below:

("three strikes")
SUB(habitual offenders) AND SUB(criminal sentences)
SUB(race) OR (ethnicity) AND SUB(criminal justice)

Researched and evaluated by:
E. Ball, Librarian 3/2003
last update: D. Banton, Librarian 10/2007

top