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What's Beneath The Graham Cracker?: The Potential Impact Of Comparative Law On The Future Of Juvenile Justice Reform After Graham V. Florida, David A. Shapiro
What's Beneath The Graham Cracker?: The Potential Impact Of Comparative Law On The Future Of Juvenile Justice Reform After Graham V. Florida, David A. Shapiro
David A Shapiro
The United States continues to incarcerate children for longer periods than any other country. It remains perhaps the only country in the world to sentence juveniles to life without parole. It has violated the most basic of international legal conventions, including the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). It is time to bring juvenile sentencing and reforms in line with the rest of the civilized world. There are more than two hundred different countries with their own juvenile sentencing and reform laws.
This article argues that reformers are better off looking to these countries directly than …