Analysis of Disagreement
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Brooke Fulkerson
Jennifer Waters
ENG 102
21 March 2014
Analysis of Disagreement
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Where do writers disagree about facts The writers disagree on how well the law does at deterring crime. Ray Fisman says that the unintended consequences of the law being put in place will be people on their third strike committing more violent crimes, Fisman says “Instead of analyzing aggregate crime data, Iyengar looks at the lawbreaking choices of individual criminals. She examines how their lawbreaking activities change when the three-strikes law is on the books and also how their lawbreaking activities change depending on how many strikes they have against them.” This shows that in California’s “Three Strikes” Law Increases Violent Crime” it is believed that those with strikes on their records will change the way they commit crime rather than stop altogether. Whereas John Schafer believes that the law is doing a good job with deterring people from committing crime, “The Deterrent Effect of Three Strikes Law” says that while the law cannot be given sole credit it does seem to be something that the justice system was missing. 2)
Where do the writers agree about facts but disagree about the significance or relevance of
facts?
Both writers agree on the fact that one of the benefits of the Three Strikes Law is that it dropped crime rates in California drastically. They disagree on how significant that decrease is, Ray
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Fisman says that the “good news” ends with that decrease in California, while John Schafer says that this shows that it was “an essential piece of the crime control puzzle.” 3)
Where do the writers disagree about values, beliefs, or principles?
They disagree as a whole because Schafer believes that the Three Strikes Law is effective with deterring crime while Fisman believes the opposite. Fisman is focusing more of those who have already committed crimes and then return to it because something happened and they will get the
same amount of time regardless of what crime they commit, he is saying that violent crimes are more likely to be committed by those that are on their second strikes because “...why not try and shoot your way out of an arrest?” While Schafer believed that the law is effective in deterring people from crimes entirely, he focuses on juveniles and how it effectively keeps them from committing crime while also contributing to keeping prior felons away from committing crime as
well “61 percent of the offenders said they would not or probably would not commit crime if they knew they would receive life in prison, thus demonstrating a specific deterrent effect.” 4)
Where do the writers disagree about key definitions?
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Where do the writers disagree about appropriate analogies?
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