Alexandra Natapoff, Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal

Abstract

1. This book was published in 2019 the same year the important Timbs v. Indiana case occurred. The court held “The Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause is an incorporated protection applicable to the States under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.” Timbs v. Indiana, 139 s. Ct. 682 (2019). Since this decision important legal and policy deliberations have begun to engage with notions of what “excessive” is and how courts should interpret and apply (Colgan and McLean, 2020).