Robert Nash Parker, University of California - Riverside (IMAGE)

University of California - Riverside

Robert Nash Parker, University of California - Riverside

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UC Riverside sociologist Robert Nash Parker says that California's three-strikes law is not the cause of the state's declining crime rate. Rather the lower crime rate is linked to a declining rate of alcohol consumption.

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University of California, Riverside

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