Analyzes the Rehnquist Court's impact on criminal punishment issues by focusing on decisions affecting the Eighth Amendment, capital punishment, and access to justice (especially "habeus corpus" reform). Chapters on excessive sentences and prison conditions, discretion and discrimination in the Dea
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The distinguishing feature of criminal law is punishment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
habeas corpus reform, criminal justice cases, habeas cases, habeas corpus procedures, judicial workload, federal judicial review, proportionality requirement, criminal justice decisions, federal appellate judge, conservative justices, death penalty decisions, corrections officials, civil rights lawsuits, capital sentencing, individualized decision making, criminal justice officials, habeas corpus cases, punishment issues, federal habeas corpus, convicted offenders, mitigating evidence, intent requirement, victim impact statements, criminal justice issues, deliberate indifference Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eighth Amendment, Rehnquist Court, Warren Court, Burger Court, United States, Chief Justice Rehnquist, Bill of Rights, Justice Scalia, Sixth Amendment, Justice White, Associate Justice, Clarence Thomas, Harvard Law School, Justice Brennan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Warren Burger, African American, Fifth Amendment, President Reagan, Richard Nixon, Justice Harry Blackmun, Justice Lewis Powell, Justice O'Connor, Justice Stevens, Justice Thurgood Marshall New!
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The distinguishing feature of criminal law is punishment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
habeas corpus reform, criminal justice cases, habeas cases, habeas corpus procedures, judicial workload, federal judicial review, proportionality requirement, criminal justice decisions, federal appellate judge, conservative justices, death penalty decisions, corrections officials, civil rights lawsuits, capital sentencing, individualized decision making, criminal justice officials, habeas corpus cases, punishment issues, federal habeas corpus, convicted offenders, mitigating evidence, intent requirement, victim impact statements, criminal justice issues, deliberate indifference Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eighth Amendment, Rehnquist Court, Warren Court, Burger Court, United States, Chief Justice Rehnquist, Bill of Rights, Justice Scalia, Sixth Amendment, Justice White, Associate Justice, Clarence Thomas, Harvard Law School, Justice Brennan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Warren Burger, African American, Fifth Amendment, President Reagan, Richard Nixon, Justice Harry Blackmun, Justice Lewis Powell, Justice O'Connor, Justice Stevens, Justice Thurgood Marshall New!
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- The Supreme Court by Lawrence Baum on 4 pages
- North Carolina (Rookie Read-About Geography) by Linda Crotta Brennan on page 74, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences (The Library of Black America series) by Mark V. Tushnet on page 10, and Back Matter
- South Carolina (Portrait of America) by Kathleen Thompson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Bill of Rights (Irvington Reprint Series in Political Science) by Hugo L. Black on page 12, and Back Matter
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- The Rehnquist Court: A Retrospective by Martin H. Belsky on page 155
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