No Cruel Or Unusual Punishment

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No Cruel Or Unusual Punishment

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Author : David Machajewski
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2018-12-15

No Cruel Or Unusual Punishment written by David Machajewski and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

When the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, it had a major flaw: it failed to acknowledge individual rights. Early Americans were not pleased. They didn't believe their new government was respecting their freedoms. Thus, the Bill of Rights was created. Readers will explore the history, significance, and controversy surrounding the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits cruel or unusual punishment. Primary sources, sidebars, and compelling stories, demonstrate how the amendment protects, and potentially harms, criminals. Historic and present-day examples of long-standing debates about the amendment's controversial "cruel and unusual" clause further illustrate the amendment's importance.

No Cruel And Unusual Punishments Supreme Court Decisions

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Author : Robert Dittmer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-11-08

No Cruel And Unusual Punishments Supreme Court Decisions written by Robert Dittmer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-08 with categories.

This is a sourcebook on the supreme court's decisions on the no cruel and unusual punishment's clause of the eighth amendment.

No Cruel And Unusual Punishments

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Author : Robert Dittmer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-11-08

No Cruel And Unusual Punishments written by Robert Dittmer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-08 with categories.

This is a book of the complete text (and some excerpts) of the most important supreme court cases on the No Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the Eighth Amendment.

The Eighth Amendment And Its Future In A New Age Of Punishment

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Author : Meghan J. Ryan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-11

The Eighth Amendment And Its Future In A New Age Of Punishment written by Meghan J. Ryan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-11 with Law categories.

A theoretical and practical exploration of the constitutional bar against cruel and unusual punishments, excessive bail, and excessive fines.

Preventing Cruel And Unusual Punishment

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Author : Hallie Murray
language : en
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2017-07-15

Preventing Cruel And Unusual Punishment written by Hallie Murray and has been published by Enslow Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

The Founding Fathers created the Eighth Amendment to protect the people from the kind of abuse they had seen while the colonies were under British rule. But to this day, Americans continue to argue about what exactly “cruel and unusual,” “excessive bail,” and “excessive fines” mean. Through full-color and black-and-white photos, engaging text, and primary sources, students will examine the events leading up to the Eighth Amendment’s creation, how it has been defined throughout the centuries, and how it is interpreted today. In addition, informative sidebars and a further reading section with books and websites encourage students to explore the people and events of this time in history in more depth.

The Story Of Cruel And Unusual

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Author : Colin Dayan
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2024-04-30

The Story Of Cruel And Unusual written by Colin Dayan and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-30 with Political Science categories.

A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment. The revelations of prisoner abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib and more recently at Guantánamo were shocking to most Americans. And those who condemned the treatment of prisoners abroad have focused on U.S. military procedures and abuses of executive powers in the war on terror, or, more specifically, on the now-famous White House legal counsel memos on the acceptable limits of torture. But in The Story of Cruel and Unusual, Colin Dayan argues that anyone who has followed U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding the Eighth Amendment prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment would recognize the prisoners' treatment at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo as a natural extension of the language of our courts and practices in U.S. prisons. In fact, it was no coincidence that White House legal counsel referred to a series of Supreme Court decisions in the 1980s and 1990s in making its case for torture.Dayan traces the roots of "acceptable" torture to slave codes of the nineteenth century that deeply embedded the dehumanization of the incarcerated in our legal system. Although the Eighth Amendment was interpreted generously during the prisoners' rights movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, this period of judicial concern was an anomaly. Over the last thirty years, Supreme Court decisions have once again dismantled Eighth Amendment protections and rendered such words as "cruel" and "inhuman" meaningless when applied to conditions of confinement and treatment during detention. Prisoners' actual pain and suffering have been explained away in a rhetorical haze—with rationalizations, for example, that measure cruelty not by the pain or suffering inflicted, but by the intent of the person who inflicted it. The Story of Cruel and Unusual is a stunningly original work of legal scholarship, and a searing indictment of the U.S. penal system.

The Concept Of Cruel And Unusual Punishment

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Author : Larry Charles Berkson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975

The Concept Of Cruel And Unusual Punishment written by Larry Charles Berkson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Law categories.

Cruel Unusual

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Author : John D. Bessler
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2012

Cruel Unusual written by John D. Bessler and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Social Science categories.

This indispensable history of the Eighth Amendment and the founders' views of capital punishment is also a passionate call for the abolition of the death penalty based on the notion of cruel and unusual punishment

Retribution Justice And Therapy

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Author : J.G. Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1979-07-31

Retribution Justice And Therapy written by J.G. Murphy and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-07-31 with Law categories.

One might legitimately ask what reasons other than vanity could prompt an author to issue a collection of his previously published essays. The best reason, I think, is the belief that the essays hang together in such a way that, as a book, they produce a whole which is in a sense greater than the sum of its parts. When this happens, as I hope it does in the present case, it is because the essays pursue related themes in such a way that, together, they at least form a start toward the development of a systematic theory on the common foundations supporting the particular claims in the particular articles. With respect to this collection, the essays can all be read as particular ways of pursuing the following general pattern of thought: that a commitment to justice and a respect for rights (and not social utility) must be the foundation of any morally acceptable legal order; that a social contractarian model is the best way to illuminate this foundation; that a retributive theory of punish ment is the only theory of punishment resting on such a foundation and thus is the only morally acceptable theory of punishment; that the twentieth century's faddish movement toward a "scientific" or therapeutic response to crime runs grave risks of undermining the foundations of justice and rights on which the legal order ought to rest; and, finally, that the legitimate worry about the tendency of the behavioral sciences to undermine the values of

Cruel And Unusual

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Author : Anne-Marie Cusac
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2009-03-17

Cruel And Unusual written by Anne-Marie Cusac and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-17 with History categories.

The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America’s imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward criminals and punishment? What does it say about us? This book explores the cultural evolution of punishment practices in the United States. Anne-Marie Cusac first looks at punishment in the nation’s early days, when Americans repudiated Old World cruelty toward criminals and emphasized rehabilitation over retribution. This attitude persisted for some 200 years, but in recent decades we have abandoned it, Cusac shows. She discusses the dramatic rise in the use of torture and restraint, corporal and capital punishment, and punitive physical pain. And she links this new climate of punishment to shifts in other aspects of American culture, including changes in dominant religious beliefs, child-rearing practices, politics, television shows, movies, and more. America now punishes harder and longer and with methods we would have rejected as cruel and unusual not long ago. These changes are profound, their impact affects all our lives, and we have yet to understand the full consequences.