Adult Time for Adult Crimes: Life Without Parole for Juvenile Killers and Violent Teens
Publication year:
2009
| Cataloged on:
Sep. 08, 2009
ANNOTATION: While "[l]ife without parole for the very worst juvenile offenders is reasonable, constitutional, and (appropriately) rare . . . its continued viability is at risk from misleading lobbying efforts in many states and court cases that seek to substitute international law for legislative judgments and constitutional text" (p. 4). This report explains how this is supposedly happening. Sections comprising this publication are: sentencing under siege; manufacturing statistics -- 19-year-old "juveniles"; the U.S. has a juvenile crime problem, life without parole for juvenile offenders is constitutional; the U.S. has no international obligation to ban juvenile life without parole; and conclusion -- a lawful and appropriate punishment.