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Interactionism In Los Angeles

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These stories are different because no one in the token sucking category has gone to jail for a lenghty time period and their crime was thought of a petty but " In Los Angeles, a 27 year old man stole a pizza and was sentenced to 25 years in prison." (Henslin, p209). Even though the subway system suffered financially through repairs, arrests and manpower the crimes were deemed petty and the criminals weren 't threatening to society. With the three strikes sentencings most rendered the same type of societal losses for banks, grocery stores, low level drug dealers and were non-violent but resulted in life sentences. Strategies in the states where the three strike law were passed without full thought seemed knee-jerk. Symbolic interactionism was

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