Challenging capital punishment: legal and social science approaches
In: Sage criminal justice system annuals 24
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In: Sage criminal justice system annuals 24
In: Crime, law and social change: an interdisciplinary journal, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 127-154
ISSN: 1573-0751
In: Crime, law and social change: an interdisciplinary journal, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 127
ISSN: 0925-4994
In: Crime, law and social change: an interdisciplinary journal, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 127-154
ISSN: 0925-4994
In: The prison journal: the official publication of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, Band 73, Heft 3, S. 391-422
ISSN: 1552-7522
Intravenous drug use is both a common aspect of the pre-imprisonment lifestyles of many American prisoners and a leading risk factor for contracting HIV—the virus that causes AIDS. Moreover, incarcerated inmates frequently engage in behavior that can spread the disease, particularly homosexual activity and intravenous drug use. Correctional officials face increasing pressure to protect inmates and staff from HIV infection, and some have responded by implementing policies requiring all inmates to undergo HIV testing and by housing HIV-positive inmates in separate units. Screening and segregation policies, however, have been challenged on constitutional grounds by HIV-positive prisoners. This article examines the leading constitutional developments in this emerging area of law and finds that most courts so far have been inclined to reject constitutional challenges to mandatory testing and segregation policies. There are enough unsettled issues, however, to warrant expanded appellate review and eventual U.S. Supreme Court resolution of the key constitutional questions.
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 721-746
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 44, S. 721-746
ISSN: 0022-3816
In: The Western political quarterly, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 552-571
ISSN: 1938-274X
In: The Western political quarterly: official journal of Western Political Science Association, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 552
ISSN: 0043-4078
In: Punishment & society, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 227-252
ISSN: 1741-3095
The history of capital punishment in the USA reveals a cyclical pattern: critiques of existing methods of execution inspire the adoption of a new method that is presented as more humane and less problematic; this in turn leads to a new round of criticism. The historical shift from hanging to death by electrocution, gas chamber, and — most recently — lethal injection reflects an institutional fad cycle.