Add to ORKGThis Article focuses on the sentencing of child offenders to a term of life imprisonment without the possibility of release or parole ( LWOP ). These are children convicted of crimes when younger than eighteen years of age, as defined by the international standards contained in the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child
In the last decade, the US Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty, a life sentence without p...
In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court in Roper v. Simmons (125 S. Ct. 1183) banned executions of persons w...
Life without parole (LWOP) is “an especially harsh punishment for a juvenile,” as the U.S. Supreme C...
This article focuses on the sentencing of child offenders (those convicted of crimes when younger th...
This article begins with a discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision to abolish the death penalty a...
The practice of sentencing children to life in prison without parole is not only a misguided vio...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze data, policy trends, and legal concerns on the issue of sent...
Most countries prohibit both capital punishment and life without parole (LWOP) for those below the a...
Brett Jones turned fifteen years old the summer before he was set to start high school. Twenty-three...
The Eighth Amendment provides that “no cruel and unusual punishment shall be inflicted.” The Supreme...
In most states, juveniles may receive the sentence of life without the possibility of parole when co...
In the words of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, children are different. The issue of how to sente...
Scientific, legal, and societal notions about youth have come together to reaffirm an age-old concep...
The main principle when sentencing children is that imprisonment should be a measure of last resort ...
The United States is the only industrialized country that sentences individuals to spend the remaind...
In the last decade, the US Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty, a life sentence without p...
In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court in Roper v. Simmons (125 S. Ct. 1183) banned executions of persons w...
Life without parole (LWOP) is “an especially harsh punishment for a juvenile,” as the U.S. Supreme C...
This article focuses on the sentencing of child offenders (those convicted of crimes when younger th...
This article begins with a discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision to abolish the death penalty a...
The practice of sentencing children to life in prison without parole is not only a misguided vio...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze data, policy trends, and legal concerns on the issue of sent...
Most countries prohibit both capital punishment and life without parole (LWOP) for those below the a...
Brett Jones turned fifteen years old the summer before he was set to start high school. Twenty-three...
The Eighth Amendment provides that “no cruel and unusual punishment shall be inflicted.” The Supreme...
In most states, juveniles may receive the sentence of life without the possibility of parole when co...
In the words of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, children are different. The issue of how to sente...
Scientific, legal, and societal notions about youth have come together to reaffirm an age-old concep...
The main principle when sentencing children is that imprisonment should be a measure of last resort ...
The United States is the only industrialized country that sentences individuals to spend the remaind...
In the last decade, the US Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty, a life sentence without p...
In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court in Roper v. Simmons (125 S. Ct. 1183) banned executions of persons w...
Life without parole (LWOP) is “an especially harsh punishment for a juvenile,” as the U.S. Supreme C...