No Cruel Or Unusual Punishment

Author : David Machajewski
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538343111

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No Cruel or Unusual Punishment by David Machajewski Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Dittmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798589436068

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No Cruel and Unusual Punishments Supreme Court Decisions by Robert Dittmer Pdf

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

Author : Meghan J. Ryan,William W. Berry III
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108498579

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The Eighth Amendment and Its Future in a New Age of Punishment by Meghan J. Ryan,William W. Berry III Pdf

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

Author : Colin Dayan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262551960

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The Story of Cruel and Unusual by Colin Dayan Pdf

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.

Author : Hallie Murray
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766087415

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Preventing Cruel and Unusual Punishment by Hallie Murray Pdf

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.

Author : Anne-Marie Cusac
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300155495

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Cruel and Unusual by Anne-Marie Cusac Pdf

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.

Author : J.G. Murphy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1979-07-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789027709998

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Retribution, Justice, And Therapy by J.G. Murphy Pdf

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

Author : John D. Bessler
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781555537173

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Cruel & Unusual by John D. Bessler Pdf

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

Author : Walter Surma Tarnopolsky
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9780773595439

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The Canadian Bill of Rights by Walter Surma Tarnopolsky Pdf

Author : Larry Charles Berkson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015002232604

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The Concept of Cruel and Unusual Punishment by Larry Charles Berkson Pdf

Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1508 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210025663863

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United States Code by United States Pdf

Author : Robert Hazell,James Melton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107112773

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Magna Carta and its Modern Legacy by Robert Hazell,James Melton Pdf

In this book top scholars analyse the historic and contemporary influence of Magna Carta, challenging its common myths.

Author : Antonin Scalia
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781596987005

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Scalia Dissents by Antonin Scalia Pdf

Brilliant. Colorful. Visionary. Tenacious. Witty. Since his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1986, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has been described as all of these things and for good reason. He is perhaps the best-known justice on the Supreme Court today and certainly the most controversial. Yet most Americans have probably not read even one of his several hundred Supreme Court opinions. In Scalia Dissents, Kevin Ring, former counsel to the U.S. Senate's Constitution Subcommittee, lets Justice Scalia speak for himself. This volume—the first of its kind— showcases the quotable justice's take on many of today's most contentious constitutional debates. Scalia Dissentscontains over a dozen of the justice's most compelling and controversial opinions. Ring also provides helpful background on the opinions and a primer on Justice Scalia's judicial philosophy. Scalia Dissents is the perfect book for readers who love scintillating prose and penetrating insight on the most important constitutional issues of our time.

Author : Robert Dittmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1508801096

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No Cruel and Unusual Punishments by Robert Dittmer Pdf

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.

Author : Scott Vollum,Rolando V. del Carmen,Durant Frantzen,Claudia San Miguel,Kelly Cheeseman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317521563

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The Death Penalty by Scott Vollum,Rolando V. del Carmen,Durant Frantzen,Claudia San Miguel,Kelly Cheeseman Pdf

The Death Penalty, Third Edition, brings together all the legal issues related to the death penalty and provides case briefs for the most important United States Supreme Court death penalty cases. No other book available brings together a discussion of the major constitutional issues surrounding the death penalty with a broad array of associated case briefs. The authors classify cases according to legal issues and provide a commentary on the various sub-topics, presenting legal materials in an easily understood form. Though the primary audiences of the book are undergraduates in criminal justice programs and practitioners in the corrections and justice systems, the book will also prove useful to anyone who has an interest in the death penalty, the criminal justice system, or the United States Constitution. Every chapter starts with commentaries regarding general case law in a sub-topic, such as aggravating and mitigating factors, followed by a chart of the cases briefed in the chapter, and then the case briefs. These case briefs acquaint the reader with Supreme Court cases by summarizing facts, issues, reasons, and holdings. The Death Penalty, Third Edition , is a succinct, trusted guide to the law of capital punishment in the United States.