CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Altamont Free Concert, Kent State Shootings, Cambodian Campaign
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1960"s started out with optimism (civil rights movement: lbj- he was elected and made the great society", cultural revolution, people started to dress differently, rebellion, etc, warren court, civil rights movement. Some of the students that were shot had been protesting the cambodian campaign during the vietnam war: vietnam and watergate. Classical theory revisited: crime was based on choice; all criminals have free will. James q. wilson wrote a book called thinking about crime. Attacked the positivist view that crime results solely from social forces. These force judges to deliver fixed sentences to individuals convicted of crime, regardless of culpability or other mitigating factors. California: mandatory 25 year sentence (3 strikes, any third felony conviction, 2 serious convictions, e. g. Do three strikes laws work: little empirical support for crime reduction effects, potential increases in homicide rates. Why don"t they work: they"re not a deterrent: low crime-reporting rate, many crimes aren"t reported by police, role of alcohol, drugs, mental health.