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Brief Amici Curiae of the National Organization of Victims of Juvenile Murderers and Arizona Voice for Crime Victims, Inc. in Support of Respondent
Keywords permanent incorrigibility; life without parole; LWOP; victims; possibility of parole(2020)
Brief of Indiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent
Keywords Miller; Montgomery; discretionary life without parole sentencing; life without parole; LWOP; juvenile sentencing; youth and its attendant circumstances; mandatory LWOP; mandatory life without parole sentences; beyond rehabilitation; permanently incorrigible; Eighth Amendment (U.S.)(2020)
Brief Amicus Curiae of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Support of Respondent
Keywords permanently incorrigible; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); LWOP; life without parole; Miller; Due Process Clause (U.S.)(2020)
Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae Supporting Respondent
Keywords permanently incorrigible; incapable of rehabilitation; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); Miller; homicide; transient immaturity; youth as mitigating circumstances; JLWOP; juvenile life without parole(2020)
Brief of Amici Curiae Current and Former Prosecutors, Department of Justice Officials, and Judges in Support of Petitioner
Keywords permanent incorrigibility; proportionate sentencing; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); Miller; Montgomery; transient immaturity(2020)
Brief for Jonathan F. Mitchell and Adam K. Mortara as Amici Curiae in Support of Neither Party
Keywords permanent incorrigibility; incapable of rehabilitation; Miller; Montgomery; murder; juvenile homicide offenders; characteristics of youth; transient immaturity; Eighth Amendment (U.S.)(2020)
Brief for Amicus Curiae Madge Jones, Tony Jones, Marty Jones, and Nicolle Olson in Support of Petitioner
Keywords incorrigible; transient immaturity; Miller; Montgomery; LWOP; life without parole(2020)
Brief of the American Bar Association as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords incorrigibility; incapable of rehabilitation; JLWOP; juvenile life without parole; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); irreparable corruption; transient immaturity; Miller(2020)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and 65 Other Organizations and Individuals as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords Eighth Amendment (U.S.); incorrigibility; Miller; Montgomery; lesser culpability; lesser blameworthiness; individualize hearings; LWOP; life without parole(2020)
Brief of Amici Curiae Children’s Rights Advocates in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellees
Keywords climate change; youth; emotional regulation; vulnerability; brain(2020)
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(2020)
Addiction is driven by excessive goal-directed drug choice under negative affect: Translational critique of habit and compulsion theory
Keywords Addiction; goal-directed choice; habit; compulsion; negative affect; drug reward; decision-making; dependence; withdrawal; stress(2020)
Healthy Development as a Human Right: Insights from Developmental Neuroscience for Youth Justice
Keywords Brain development; Law; Adolescence; Rights; Brain; cognition; development(2020)
"Permanently Incorrigible" Is a Patently Ineffective Standard: Reforming the Administration of Juvenile Life Without Parole
Keywords juvenile life without parole; JLWOP; Eighth amendment; Miller v. Alabama; permanent incorrigibility; discretionary JLWOP sentence; mitigating factors; Montgomery v. Louisiana; Sixth Amendment(2020)
Combined Pharmacotherapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adults With Alcohol or Substance Use Disorders - A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
(2020)