San Francisco Chronicle, July 3, 2011 by Marisa Lagos
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/03/MN681K1949.DTL
“Three strikes passed during a period of time when California and the nation as a whole was swept up in panic over crime and super predator arguments—every politician, left and right, felt the need to embrace something to get away from the freight train of public fear about crime,” said Barry Krisberg, a criminal justice expert at UC Berkeley. “Three strikes never made sense—it was never a good law or policy from the inception.”