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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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