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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "In the United States, habitual offender laws (commonly referred to as three-strikes laws) are statutes enacted by state governments which mandate courts to impose harsher sentences on those convicted of an offense if they have been previously convicted of two prior serious criminal offenses. They are designed to incapacitate those more likely to commit crime.Twenty-four states have some form of \"three-strikes\" law. A person accused under such laws is referred to in a few states (notably Connecticut and Kansas) as a \"persistent offender\", while Missouri uses the unique term \"prior and persistent offender\". In most jurisdictions, only crimes at the felony level qualify as serious offenses; however, misdemeanor offenses previously could qualify for application of the three-strikes law in California, whose application has been the subject of controversy. This changed after Proposition 36 passed in 2012, that meant it had to be a serious or violent felony.The popular name of these laws, three-strikes laws, comes from baseball, where a batter is permitted two strikes before striking out on the third.The three-strikes law significantly increases the prison sentences of persons convicted of a felony who have been previously convicted of two or more violent crimes or serious felonies, and limits the ability of these offenders to receive a punishment other than a life sentence. Some analysts claim that the three-strikes law has also exacerbated the mass incarceration in the 1990s."@en }

• Three-strikes_law abstract "In the United States, habitual offender laws (commonly referred to as three-strikes laws) are statutes enacted by state governments which mandate courts to impose harsher sentences on those convicted of an offense if they have been previously convicted of two prior serious criminal offenses. They are designed to incapacitate those more likely to commit crime.Twenty-four states have some form of \"three-strikes\" law. A person accused under such laws is referred to in a few states (notably Connecticut and Kansas) as a \"persistent offender\", while Missouri uses the unique term \"prior and persistent offender\". In most jurisdictions, only crimes at the felony level qualify as serious offenses; however, misdemeanor offenses previously could qualify for application of the three-strikes law in California, whose application has been the subject of controversy. This changed after Proposition 36 passed in 2012, that meant it had to be a serious or violent felony.The popular name of these laws, three-strikes laws, comes from baseball, where a batter is permitted two strikes before striking out on the third.The three-strikes law significantly increases the prison sentences of persons convicted of a felony who have been previously convicted of two or more violent crimes or serious felonies, and limits the ability of these offenders to receive a punishment other than a life sentence. Some analysts claim that the three-strikes law has also exacerbated the mass incarceration in the 1990s.".