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Competence, Culpability, and Punishment: Implications of Atkins for Executing and Sentencing Adolescents
Keywords
Supreme Court;
blameworthiness;
capital punishment;
proportionality;
death penalty;
developmental impairments;
older adolescents;
Atkins v. Virginia;
judgment;
impulse control;
psychological characteristics;
developmental characteristics;
reduced culpability;
mitigating factors
People v. Skinner
Keywords
juvenile offender;
juvenile life without parole;
JLWOP;
permanent incorrigibility
U.S. v. Sparks
Keywords
juvenile offender;
juvenile life without parole;
JLWOP;
Eighth Amendment;
cruel and unusual punishment
Veal v. State
Keywords
juvenile offender;
juvenile life without parole;
JLWOP;
permanent incorrigibility
Commonwealth v. Batts
Keywords
juvenile offender;
juvenile life without parole;
JLWOP;
cruel and unusual punishment;
Eighth Amendment;
Miller v. Alabama;
Montgomery v. Louisiana
Malvo v. Mathena
Keywords
juvenile offender;
mental state;
Eighth Amendment;
juvenile life without parole;
JLWOP;
cruel and unusual punishment
In Re Winship
Keywords
juvenile offender;
juvenile rights;
burden of proof;
due process;
Fourteenth Amendment
Breed v. Jones
Keywords
juvenile offender;
double jeopardy;
Fifth Amendment;
juvenile court jurisdiction
Jackson v. Norris
Keywords
juvenile offender;
life without parole;
juvenile life without parole;
JLWOP;
Miller v. Alabama;
resentencing
State v. Seam
Keywords
Eighth Amendment;
Miller v. Alabama;
life with parole;
juvenile sentencing
Eddings v. Oklahoma
Keywords
Eighth Amendment;
mitigating factors;
death penalty;
capital crime;
juvenile sentencing
State v. Conner
Keywords
juvenile sentencing;
consecutive sentences;
life without parole;
LWOP;
de facto life sentence;
permanent incorrigibility
Amicus Curiae Brief of the Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior in Support of Appellant Evan McCarrick Jerald
Keywords
Adolescent development;
Neuroscience;
Adolescent decison-making;
Impulsivity;
Future discounting;
Peer influence;
Risky decision-making;
Adolescent brain development;
Brain development;
Criminal behavior;
Self-desistance;
Maturation;
Evidence-based treatment
Girls in Juvenile Justice
Keywords
Juvenile justice;
Female offenders;
Interpersonal violence;
Gender-responsive programming;
School-to-prison pipeline;
Disproportionate minority contact (DMC);
Racial and ethnic disparities (RED);
Diversion;
Decarceration;
Intersectionality;
Trauma-informed practice
State v. Borlase
Keywords
juvenile sentencing;
juvenile life without parole;
cruel and unusual punishment;
North Carolina statute on sentencing;
rehabilitation;
permanent incorrigibility;
mitigating factors of youth
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