… punishing some relatively minor offense with an extremely long prison sentence, disproportional
punishment … to justify punishment, for example, firmly believes that punishment should …

… Disproportionate punishments can be thought to be both cruel and unusual. The … punishments"
to encompass a ban on certain types of punishments as well as excessive punishments; …

… In turn, that strategic shift set the stage for the most recent chapter in the attack on capital
punishment that is the main subject of this book. The legal battle against capital punishment will …

What ends do we expect and hope to serve in punishing criminal wrongdoers? Does the
punishment of offenders do more harm than good for American society? In The Case against …

… to punishment, … punishment and a renewed focus on the production of poverty and wage
labor within both our analytic mappings of the carceral state and our organizing efforts against …

… punishment of children, laying out foundations of a case against physical punishment as
a … We consider the research on physical punishment finding that physical punishment is …

… Arguments against the use of corporal punishment are most often advanced on two fronts.
Corporal punishment has been shown to have deleterious associations in childhood and adult…

… punishment in the face of procedural deficiencies must balance the injustice associated with
procedural problems against the … to the wholesale abolition of punishment, a feature which …

… ), especially violence against mothers, and whether violence by fathers against mothers is
… against children in the form of corporal punishment and also more severe violence · against …

… the point against the deterrent theory that it is the threat of punishment and not punishment
itself which deters, and that when deterrence seems to depend on actual punishment, to …