Discuss habitual offender statutes. What are they? How do you feel they have affected sentencing today?
What will be an ideal response?
Habitual offender statutes are statutes mandating that offenders with a third felony conviction be sentenced to life imprisonment regardless of the nature of the third felony. This is a way of selectively incapacitating felons only after they have demonstrated the inability to live by society’s rules. Few of us would be against the lifetime incarceration of seriously violent offenders, but many states include relatively minor nonviolent crimes in their habitual status offenders. The last part of the essay question is subjective
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