Law

The Three Strikes Law mandates an extended period of imprisonment for the law offenders who will commit the criminal offense three times in different occasions. Whether it is a violent crime or a serious crime (it also involves violent crime) like robbery, will be qualified for  strikes . The name was actually incorporated in baseball where the batter is allowed to have to strikes and after the third one he will be out. In New Zealand, the Three Strike Law is also set to be a law. In Scoop.Co, Hon Rodney Hide said that Three Strikes deliberately escalates the punishment for repeat violent offenders. Most offenders wont want to risk a second strike. Repeat offenders will be locked up without parole and for maximum sentences . However, the effectiveness and fairness of this law are being questioned.

People had been arguing if this law is effective and just. A lot of people are jailed for committing non-violent crimes and some of them can be considered as petty. In March 1999, a man in California was sentenced for 25 years of imprisonment just for stealing a bottle of vitamins. (Murphy,2000). Some say that the Three Strikes Law is effective to the repeat offenders because that just means that they are really bound in committing a crime.  I believe that New York should adapt this law because I feel that this would reduce the crime rate. There are a lot of crimes that always take place in New York. If people would know about this law, I am sure that they are not going to commit the same crime again. They are going to think twice in involving to different crimes for they are going to be accountable for the  second strike   Regardless of the crime that the criminals committed, they should pay for it justly. So whether a person commit homicide or just stole something, it is just right to make them learn their lesson. There are still other basis for conviction for each crimes that are committed. It just so happened that on the second strike, you will already have a longer sentence and on the third strike, you can never be put on parole. Just like when you did something good, big or small it is still goodness and same as when you did something bad.