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    If family members of the incarcerated systematically suff... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Foreseeable harmful effects on a criminal's family that result from imprisonment do not constitute punishment.

    If family members of the incarcerated systematically suffer economic ruin, social stigma, and psychological harm as constitutive outcomes of imprisonment, the state's act of punishing cannot be cleanly severed from those effects.

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    constitutive outcomes(as used in discussing the nature of punishment)
    Results that are built into or essential to how something works, not just accidental side effects—in this case, the economic and social damage aren't separate from punishment, they're part of what punishment actually does.
    incarcerated(as used in criminal justice)
    Imprisoned or locked up in jail or prison.
    severed(as used in the argument about punishment and its effects)
    Completely separated or cut off from something else.
    the state's act of punishing(as used in discussing who is responsible for the consequences of imprisonment)
    The government's official action of putting someone in prison or applying a legal punishment.

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