Sociology
Three Strikes Law -
Mandatory Sentencing
California
Criminal Law Observer
http://www.silicon-valley.com/3strikes.html
In 1994 California voters approved a ballot initiative known as "Three
Strikes and You're Out." Basically what it means is that people who are
convicted of three felonies may end up facing life in prison. This site
describes the law.
Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentences
http://www.famm.org/about1.htm
FAQ’s, fact sheets,
how the system works, what the sentences are, state laws, and more
Legislative
Analyst Office
http://www.lao.ca.gov/LAOMenus/lao_menu_fulltext_search.asp
Search for "three strikes law" and see the 2004 version.
Rand Corporation
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR827/h.asp
Mandatory minimum drug sentences or throwing away the key or the taxpayers money. This report and others on child policy and education are listed under the Rand site. You will need to search for the reports you need.
States’ 3 Laws Strike
Out
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1999/1110/threestrikes.html
This is an article from Berkeley’s on line newspaper in 1999.
Washington Times
http://www.threestrikes.org/washtimes_1.html
Article about the Supreme Court and the law dated March, 2003
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Welfare to Work
Economic
Policy Institute
http://www.epinet.org/search.cfm
There is much information to be found here
about Labor and Living Standards, Government & the Economy, Trade
Globalization, Education and a Job Watch
Human
Services Policy
http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/hspwelfare.htm
From the Department of Health and Human
Services, this site has many sites of interest. The Welfare & work area
is divided into a number of sections with up to date information.
Mathematic Policy
Research
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/welfare.htm
A for-profit research
organization working on a federally funded four-year study of welfare and
welfare related programs.
Small Business Administration
http://www.sba.gov/opc/pubs/fs78.html
Information about Welfare to work. Scroll to the bottom for a listing of
sites.
http://www.sba.gov/gils/SBA1998Jun12.144845.html
Facts about the Small Business Welfare to work Initiative.
Welfare
Law
Center
http://www.welfarelaw.org/wrap_progress.html
http://www.welfarelaw.org/mottgrt.html
Information on the
Welfare organizing project
Welfare-to-Work
http://www.opm.gov/wtw/
U.S. Office of
Personnel Management, providing employment opportunities to welfare
recipients and directed the heads of the federal government's executive
departments and agencies to lead by example and move people off the welfare
rolls into federal jobs using available hiring authorities.
Welfare-to-Work
http://wtw.doleta.gov/
U. S. Department of Labor information
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White Supremacists
Anti Defamation League
http://www.adl.org/special_reports/hate_on_www/hate_on_www.asp
This is the introduction to reports on various hate groups. Click on the
Side Bar or Next item to continue. At ADL the agenda always has focused on
issues of hatred and terrorism for some time — matters we have always deemed
serious. What’s changed is the recognition since September 11 that hate is
now everyone’s problem.
Anti Defamation League Home Page
http://www.adl.org/adl.asp
For more than 88
years, ADL has been combating anti-Semitism and bigotry of all kinds.
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2116623.stm
Fighting Back
http://www.psu.edu/ur/diversity/Hategroups.html
If ignored, hate
groups thrive, is the main point of the article from the Faculty/Staff
newspaper at
Penn State.
Pearson Publishing:
White Supremacists
http://www.pearsoncustom.com/allpages/whitesupremacists_bot.html
A collection
of articles from different sources about white supremacists. Links to the
University of Virginia, the United Methodist Church, the KKK and other
sites. Some are blocked.
Simon
Wiesenthal
Center
http://www.wiesenthal.com/
Simon Wiesenthal’s first goal was to find Nazi war criminals after World War
II. The center founded in 1977 is now an international Jewish human rights
organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by
fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement,
educational outreach and social action. The Center confronts important
contemporary issues including racism, anti-Semitism, terrorism and genocide
and is accredited as an NGO (Non-governmental association with both at the
United Nations and UNESCO.
The Making of a
Skinhead
http://www.wiesenthal.com/taskforce/skinhead.cfm
An article
from the Wiesenthal Center.
White Supremacists
arrested in Orange County
http://www.adl.org/learn/news/Arrest_Suprem_Cal.asp
Another
article from the ADL.
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updated: 12.12.2005
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