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- Title
Cruel and Invisible Punishment.
- Authors
Cover, Aliza
- Abstract
The article discusses a report which claims that the U.S. criminal justice system is experiencing a constitutional crisis as of 2014, focusing on cruel and unusual punishments under the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Eighth Amendment), and racial disparities in relation to punishment in America. Majority norms and the apparent countermajoritarian principles of the Eighth Amendment are mentioned, along with then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan's declaration of a war on drugs in 1982.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CRUEL &; unusual punishment; CONSTITUTIONAL crises; UNITED States. Constitution. 8th Amendment; CRIMINAL justice system; CRIMINAL justice system -- Social aspects; CONSTITUTIONAL law; REAGAN, Ronald, 1911-2004 -- Political &; social views; PUNISHMENT; DRUG control; HISTORY; PUNISHMENT -- Social aspects
- Publication
Brooklyn Law Review, 2014, Vol 79, Issue 3, p1141
- ISSN
0007-2362
- Publication type
Article