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We are faced, now, with an increasingly relevent question: how have we created, and how do we create daily, the criminal? As our prisons swell with occupants and our educational institutions are battered with the effects low funding, how does society arrange itself to accomodate the development of a rapidly rising criminal class? Some of these answers are inferred in policy like the Three Strikes Law in California, which has imprisoned a great number of non-violent offenders, including petty theft and drug possession.