Cruel and Unusual
Sentencing 13-and 14-Year-Old Children to Die in Prison
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15310056 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bryan Stevenson (0000-0002-7017-0641, New York Law School, corresponding author), Bryan A Stevenson (Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative, Montgomery, Alabama, US.) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 135-140 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Issues in Criminal Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1034-5329 • E-ISSN: 2206-9542 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10345329.2008.12056193 |
| OpenAlex | W2247147443 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
In the United States, 13-and 14-year-old children, prosecuted as adults, have been and continue to be sentenced to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole. While the United States Supreme Court recently declared in Roper v Simmons that death by execution is unconstitutional for juveniles, young children continue to be sentenced to imprisonment until they die with minimal scrutiny or review. A study by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has documented 73 cases in which children 13 and 14 years of age have been condemned to die in prison (Equal Justice Initiative 2008). The majority lack legal representation and in many cases the propriety and constitutionality of their extreme sentences have never been reviewed. Most sentences imposed on these children were mandatory: the court could not give any consideration to the child's age or life history. Some children were charged with crimes that did not involve homicide or even injury; many were convicted for offences where older teenagers or adults were involved and primarily responsible for the crime. Nearly two-thirds are children of colour
Constitutionality · Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Homicide · Imprisonment · Life imprisonment · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Prison · Scrutiny · Suicide prevention · Supreme court · Child Welfare and Adoption · Education Discipline and Inequality · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Law · Medicine · Psychology
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Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Adolescent Brain
The adolescent brain and age-related behavioral manifestations
Mapping cortical change across the human life span
(Im)maturity of judgment in adolescence
Risk taking in adolescence
| Highly cited | No |
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