Concept information
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criminology and criminal justice
criminology
social history of crime
state and federal court cases
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social history of crime
courts, corrections, punishments
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court cases
Preferred term
Griswold v. Connecticut
Definition
- The right of privacy is not expressly mentioned in the Constitution but has nevertheless been found by the Supreme Court in the penumbra—the shadows—of other expressly guaranteed rights. In a decision that would have made Chief Justice John Marshall proud of the Court's ability to reason outside the narrow framework of the rights explicitly guaranteed in the Constitution, the Court in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) found state laws banning the use of contraceptives by married couples to be an unconstitutional invasion of protected natural and fundamental rights. [Source: U.S. Constitution A to Z; Griswold v. Connecticut]
Broader concept
Belongs to group
Date
- 1965
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Griswold_v._Connecticut
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