Add to ORKGAt the end of the twentieth century, the United States was an international outlier in the severity of its juvenile sentencing practices despite having invented the juvenile court model one century earlier. Today, juvenile sentencing reform is underway, particularly in the wake of recent Supreme Court decisions that have cabined the states’ capacity to impose extreme sentences on juveniles. In this Article, I propose two additional reform measures that would help to rationalize the sentences imposed on children in the American criminal justice system—one on the front end of the system and one on the back end. In particular, on the front end, in states where life without parole (LWOP) is still a lawful sentence for a juvenile homicide defend...
This Note surveys the history of the juvenile justice system, including the philosophy behind its fo...
In the 1980s and 1990s, nearly every state enacted legislative changes that eased the process of tre...
For over a century, America’s legal system has made substantial reforms to change its treatment of a...
At the end of the twentieth century, the United States was an international outlier in the severity ...
In a series of cases culminating in Miller v. Alabama, the United States Supreme Court has limited t...
In a series of Eighth Amendment cases referred to as the Miller trilogy, the Supreme Court significa...
This article begins with a discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision to abolish the death penalty a...
This article will discuss the history of the juvenile justice system in America, from its English co...
This research was focused on analyzing and interpreting the U.S. Supreme Court’s holdings in several...
In the past decade, the Supreme Court has transformed the constitutional landscape of juvenile crime...
In the past decade, the Supreme Court has transformed the constitutional landscape of juvenile crime...
This article focuses on the sentencing of child offenders (those convicted of crimes when younger th...
Aaron KupchikIn the United States, the Juvenile Justice system is flawed. Despite ongoing research ...
The United States Supreme Court has steadily been changing the way it approaches juvenile sentencing...
This article will summarize the major twenty-first century state legislative and case law developmen...
This Note surveys the history of the juvenile justice system, including the philosophy behind its fo...
In the 1980s and 1990s, nearly every state enacted legislative changes that eased the process of tre...
For over a century, America’s legal system has made substantial reforms to change its treatment of a...
At the end of the twentieth century, the United States was an international outlier in the severity ...
In a series of cases culminating in Miller v. Alabama, the United States Supreme Court has limited t...
In a series of Eighth Amendment cases referred to as the Miller trilogy, the Supreme Court significa...
This article begins with a discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision to abolish the death penalty a...
This article will discuss the history of the juvenile justice system in America, from its English co...
This research was focused on analyzing and interpreting the U.S. Supreme Court’s holdings in several...
In the past decade, the Supreme Court has transformed the constitutional landscape of juvenile crime...
In the past decade, the Supreme Court has transformed the constitutional landscape of juvenile crime...
This article focuses on the sentencing of child offenders (those convicted of crimes when younger th...
Aaron KupchikIn the United States, the Juvenile Justice system is flawed. Despite ongoing research ...
The United States Supreme Court has steadily been changing the way it approaches juvenile sentencing...
This article will summarize the major twenty-first century state legislative and case law developmen...
This Note surveys the history of the juvenile justice system, including the philosophy behind its fo...
In the 1980s and 1990s, nearly every state enacted legislative changes that eased the process of tre...
For over a century, America’s legal system has made substantial reforms to change its treatment of a...