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Education Is The Most Appropriate Response To The Phenomenon Of Voluntary Teen Sexting, The Erin Levitas Initative For Sexual Assault Prevention Jan 2020

Education Is The Most Appropriate Response To The Phenomenon Of Voluntary Teen Sexting, The Erin Levitas Initative For Sexual Assault Prevention

C-DRUM Publications

No abstract provided.


Punishing Victim As Perpetrator: In Re: S.K. And The Chilling Effect Of Labeling Teen Sexting As Child Pornography, Emma Kaufman Jan 2020

Punishing Victim As Perpetrator: In Re: S.K. And The Chilling Effect Of Labeling Teen Sexting As Child Pornography, Emma Kaufman

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Cruel And Unusual Before And After 2012: Miller V. Alabama Must Apply Retroactively, Tracy A. Rhodes Jun 2015

Cruel And Unusual Before And After 2012: Miller V. Alabama Must Apply Retroactively, Tracy A. Rhodes

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


"And If Your Friends Jumped Off A Bridge, Would You Do It Too?": How Developmental Neuroscience Can Inform Legal Regimes Governing Adolescents, Michael N. Tennison, Amanda C. Pustilnik Jan 2015

"And If Your Friends Jumped Off A Bridge, Would You Do It Too?": How Developmental Neuroscience Can Inform Legal Regimes Governing Adolescents, Michael N. Tennison, Amanda C. Pustilnik

Faculty Scholarship

Legal models of adolescent autonomy and responsibility in various domains of law span a spectrum from categorical prohibitions of certain behaviors to recognitions of total adolescent autonomy. The piecemeal approach to the limited decision-making capacity of adolescents lacks an empirical foundation in the differences between adolescent and adult decision-making, leading to counterintuitive and inconsistent legal outcomes. The law limits adolescent autonomy with respect to some decisions that adolescents are perfectly competent to make, and in other areas, the law attributes adult responsibility and imposes adult punishments on adolescents for making decisions that implicate their unique volitional vulnerabilities. As developmental neuroscientists …


An Eighth Amendment Analysis Of Juvenile Life Without Parole: Extending Graham To All Juvenile Offenders, Robert Johnson, Chris Miller Jan 2012

An Eighth Amendment Analysis Of Juvenile Life Without Parole: Extending Graham To All Juvenile Offenders, Robert Johnson, Chris Miller

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


A Modest Appeal For Decent Respect, Jessica Olive, David C. Gray Oct 2010

A Modest Appeal For Decent Respect, Jessica Olive, David C. Gray

Faculty Scholarship

In Graham v. Florida, the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibits imposing a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of release for nonhomicide crimes if the perpetrator was under the age of eighteen at the time of his offense. In so holding, Justice Kennedy cited foreign and international law to confirm the Court’s independent judgment. In his dissent, Justice Thomas recited now-familiar objections to the Court’s reliance on these sources. Those objections are grounded in his originalist jurisprudence. In this short invited essay, which expands on prior work, we argue that Justice Thomas should abandon these …


Death By Incarceration As A Cruel And Unusual Punishment When Applied To Juveniles: Extending Roper To Life Without Parole, Our Other Death Penalty, Robert Johnson, Sonia Tabriz Jan 2009

Death By Incarceration As A Cruel And Unusual Punishment When Applied To Juveniles: Extending Roper To Life Without Parole, Our Other Death Penalty, Robert Johnson, Sonia Tabriz

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Crawford V. Washington: The Admissibility Of Statements To Physicians And The Use Of Closed-Circuit Television In Cases Of Child Sexual Abuse, Jon Simon Stefanuca Jan 2005

Crawford V. Washington: The Admissibility Of Statements To Physicians And The Use Of Closed-Circuit Television In Cases Of Child Sexual Abuse, Jon Simon Stefanuca

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.