Rehnquist Court and Criminal Punishment, Hardcover by Smith, Christopher E., ISBN 0815325738, ISBN-13 9780815325734, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 Death Penalty, and access to justice on the road to punishment illuminate how the pattern of Supreme Court decision- making affects various aspects of post-conviction processes and the implementation of criminal punishment. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
SynopsisFirst Published in 1997. Organised in a easily readable format this book on the Supreme Court and punishment takes the reader through the sentencing and incarceration issues that have been so controversial and yet, so relatively unchanged over the years.