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49 S. Cal. L. Rev. 880 (1975-1976)
Aversion Therapy: Punishment As Treatment and Treatment As Cruel and Unusual Punishment

handle is hein.journals/scal49 and id is 896 raw text is: Aversion Therapy: Punishment As
Treatment and Treatment As Cruel
and Unusual Punishment
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. AVERSION THERAPY: THE BEHAVIORAL
MODEL OF PUNISHMENT --------...............--------  887
A. THEORETICAL BASES FOR AVERSION THERAPY: THE
CLASSICAL AND PUNISHMENT CONDITIONING MODELS 891
1.  Classical  Conditioning  -- -.. ------- ................... 892
2. The Punishment Model of Operant Conditioning  893
B. TYPES OF AVERSIVE REINFORCERS AND EXAMPLES OF
THEIR APPLICATION                              894
1.  E lectrical  Stim ulation  ........................................- 895
2 .  D rugs  ... . ........................................... . -- -- - - 897
3.  Noise ---------- --   --   -----  -----.... ......... 900
4. Time Out and Response Cost Tokens and
P rivileg es  -. .-....-......... -  -----.... .......... ........ 9 0 1
5. Covert Sensitization with Imaginal Reinforcement 902
C. USAGE AND PROBLEMS WITH THE USAGE OF AVERSION
THERAPY: CLINICAL AND PRISON PROGRAMS ---------904
II. THE CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY OF PUNISHMENT            913
A. JUSTIFICATION FOR PUNISHMENT: THE
PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES -...----------...............------- 914
1. The Retributivist Doctrine -......................----------- 915
2. The Utilitarian Doctrine ---------          918
a.  Deterrence  -......------------.-.........--------- - ---- 920
b.  Rehabilitation  -------- ...------- ..................-------------  921
B. CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT: THE EIGHTH
AMENDMENT STANDARD OF REVww    -------------------- 925
1. The Dignity of Man Standard of Review ----------- 927
2. The Three Tests: Inherently Cruel and Unusual,
Proportionality, and Excessiveness ...................- 934
a. The inherently cruel and unusual punishment
test  -                -----------935
b. The proportionality test ------------------------------ 938
c.  The  excessiveness  test  .....................------   944

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