CRJ405 Advanced Seminar in Criminal Justice Unit 3.2: Peer Review Article
With your research, you will be reviewing a total of four (4) peer reviewed articles. For this discussion board, attach 1 of your articles and summarize it briefly for your peers.
See below one of the articles out of many that discuss the follow up to the Three Strikes Law passed here in California in 1994. I was living in Sonoma County at the time when Richard Allen Davis kidnapped 12-year Polly Klaas from her bedroom in front of her 2 friends in Petaluma, less than 10 miles from my own home in Santa Rosa. He was eventually captured and confessed to the crime and uncovering of Polly’s body in a ditch in a remote part of the county. Davis was a lifelong career criminal and was out on probation at the time he kidnapped and killed Polly, leading to the passage eventually of the Three Strikes Law with the help of Polly’s dad Marc Klass.
What key data will you be using for your research?
I have found numerous articles by a variety of sources ranging from nonprofit public service groups to professional law journalists and government agencies all evaluating the effects of the Three Strikes Law and also the moratorium on the Death Penalty here in California several years ago. Both these laws have affected and changed the corrections department with increased budgets and staffing and much more.
How do you think this article will play a role in your final research?
I was particularly interested in this article since the journalist is a former inmate and experienced journalist for prisons in California.
“Kevin D. Sawyer is a contributing editor for PJP; a member of the Society of Professional Journalists; and a former associate editor and member of the San Quentin News team that won SPJ’s 2014 James Madison Freedom of Information Award. His work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Post, California Prison Focus and others. He was a 2019 PEN American Honorable Mention in nonfiction and a 2016 recipient of The James Aronson Award for community journalism. Prior to incarceration, Sawyer worked in the telecommunications industry for 14 years.”
What are the 3 most important facts do you think this article covers?
What I found fascinating about this article compared to others is that the article is directly about other inmates and their personal interactions with the Three Strikes Law and how it affected their time in prison. Numerous inmates talk about their experiences both in and out of prison.
Other articles have come from government officials and their policy views of the law and how it affects the staffing and structure of the Corrections department.
I will definitely review more of his articles, and the listing of his other articles are at the bottom of this article.
Finally, the group who maintains the website Prison Journalism Project also trains incarcerated inmates to be writers and journalists to help tell their story and the stories of others.
References:
Sawyer, K., 2023, Prison Journalism Project, Stories of Freedom and Denial as Three Strikes Turns 30 in California, https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2023/08/16/three-strikes-law-approaches-30th-anniversary/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20080253884&gbraid=0AAAAAo-SeB4OlcDSZy_BTD3kYb9HixCTN&gclid=Cj0KCQjwoP_FBhDFARIsANPG24NehnRgQUrNnDOd6BLLjkToBVlOQGnAVDhyHHQcwyj3e6tbMfs3PF0aApqtEALw_wcB
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