Three Strikes And You're Out: Indiana's Habitual Offender Statute Closes The Door On Chronic Crime

To prevent future serious or violent crimes and ensure that repeat offenders serve an. Web“three strikes and you’re out” laws are intended to keep career criminals (or habitual offenders) locked up for life. Webin indiana, the three strikes law is called the habitual offender statute. Under this law, individuals who have been convicted of two or more felonies face a. Webwhile scholars have repeatedly found that florida’s habitual offender law has been disproportionately applied to racial minorities, virtually no attention has been devoted to indiana’s habitual offender law (crawford & johnson, 2008;

Webmore commonly referred to as the three strikes law, the change updated sentencing guidelines to crack down on habitual offenders, specifically habitual felony offenders. Webas part of the general political thrust to mandate increasingly tough prison terms for repeat offenders, this form of legislation seeks to ensure that habitual.