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Sentence For The Damned: Using Atkins To Understand The “Irreparable Corruption” Standard For Juvenile Life Without Parole, Zachary Crawford-Pechukas

Washington and Lee Law Review

This Note suggests that guidance should be drawn from the Supreme Court’s death penalty jurisprudence regarding the execution of intellectually disabled offenders. Atkins v. Virginia paved the way for the juvenile sentencing cases as the Supreme Court for the first time found that, under the Eighth Amendment, a selected class of offenders—the intellectually disabled — were not eligible for the state’s harshest penalty—the death penalty— because of their diminished culpability. Atkins similarly left the state courts to figure out how to decide whether an individual offender met this amorphous standard, “intellectually disabled.” As state courts grappled with this standard and …

Reckless Juveniles, Kimberly Thomas

Articles

Modern doctrine and scholarship largely take it for granted that offenders should be criminally punished for reckless acts.1 Yet, developments in our understanding of human behavior can shed light on how we define and attribute criminal liability, or at least force us to grapple with the categories that have existed for so long. This Article examines recklessness and related doctrines in light of the shifts in understanding of adolescent behavior and its biological roots, to see what insights we might attain, or what challenges these understandings pose to this foundational mens rea doctrine. Over the past decade, the U.S. Supreme …

Champions For Justice & Public Interest Auction 2019, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Public Interest Auction

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Prioritizing The Welfare Of Youth: Design Failure In Juvenile Justice And Building The Restorative Alternative, Michael Friedman

Mitchell Hamline Law Review

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Children Placed In Kinship Care: Recommended Policy Changes To Provide Adequate Support For Kinship Families, Christina Mcclurg Riehl, Tara Shuman

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Spotlight On: The Inter-American Children's Institute, Adriana Domingo

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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The Right Of All Children To Grow Up With A Family Under International Law: Implications For Placement In Orphanages, Residential Care, And Group Homes, Eric Rosenthal

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

This article describes the right of all children to live and grow up in a family as it has evolved thirty years after the adoption of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and since the 2006 adoption of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The article examines the implications of this right for the millions of children placed in orphanages, residential care, and group homes around the world.

The CRC favors the placement of children with a family, but it does allow for the placement of children in "suitable institutions" when …

Table Of Contents, Children's Legal Rights Journal

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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From Paternalism To Process: Reflections From The Bench On 40 Years Of American Child Advocacy, Erik S. Pitchal

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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The History And Influence Of The National Association Of Counsel For Children - An Alternate Perspective, Martin Guggenheim

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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In Spite Of The Odds: Achieving Educational Stability For Maryland's African American Foster Youth, Marja K. Plater

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Ending "Solitary Confinement" Of Youth In California, Sue Burrell, Ji Seon Song

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Table Of Contents, Children's Legal Rights Journal

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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The Transformation Of A Shy Girl: From Adolescent Protester To Piano Technician, Nurse And Child Advocate, Mary Anderson Richards

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Improving Protection And Services For Trafficking Victims In The United States: Recommendations Based On The United Kingdom's Modern Slavery Act 2015, Yusuf Abdulkareem

Children's Legal Rights Journal

Human trafficking is a form of modern slavery that occurs both internationally and within national borders. It is a multibillion-dollar criminal industry, and millions of men, women, and children have been victims of this heinous and unconscionable crime.2 Fortunately, the problem of human trafficking has finally started to receive the attention it deserves. Over the past two decades, a plethora of anti-trafficking laws have been passed at both international and domestic levels. The United States specifically has been a leader in the promulgation of anti-trafficking laws that have served as models for other nations of the world. These federal laws, …

Recurring Cardinal Sins: How The Holy See And Canon Law Have Perpetuated Child Sexual Abuse By Clergy Members, Gabriela Hidalgo

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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In The Courts: Extending Sentencing Protections For Young Offenders, Sarah Sewell

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Legislative Update: Massachusetts Raises Minimum Age Of Criminal Responsibility, Brianna Hill

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Review: I Am Jane Doe, Gabriela Hidalgo

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Around The World: Children's Lack Of Access To Fundamental Rights In Nepal And The Effects The Nepalese Legal System Has On Poverty, Health, Education, Child Labor, Child Trafficking, And Child Marriage, Lily Ealey

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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