Sentencing juveniles to life without parole ignores science

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 8-8
Author(s):  
Margaret Paccione‐Dyszlewski
Keyword(s):  
Life Without Parole

Patterns of Rule-Violating Behaviors and Adjustment to Incarceration among Murderers

1998 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
JON SORENSEN ◽  
ROBERT WRINKLE ◽  
APRIL GUTIERREZ
Keyword(s):  
High Rate ◽  
Rule Violation ◽  
Life Without Parole ◽  
Stable Pattern ◽  
Black Inmates

The importation and deprivation models were used to examine the patterns of rule violation among groups of seldom studied, long-term inmates who have no hope of being granted parole, murderers sentenced to life without parole or death. Age and race were found to be consistent predictors of prison rule violations, with younger Black inmates being most likely to commit assaultive violations and to be among a group of high-rate offenders. During the first 10 years of their incarceration, these lifers and death-sentenced inmates exhibited a stable pattern of rule violating congruent with previous research on long-term inmate populations.

Doing Justice Better

2020 ◽  
pp. 189-194
Author(s):  
Michael Tonry
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Life Without Parole ◽  
Three Strikes ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
Selection Of

The main ideas in this book are simple. Treat people charged with and convicted of crimes justly, fairly, and even-handedly, as anyone would want done for themselves or their children. Take sympathetic account of the circumstances of peoples’ lives. Punish no one more severely than he or she deserves. Those propositions are implicit in the rule of law and its requirement that the human dignity of every person be respected. Three major structural changes are needed. First, selection of judges and prosecutors, and their day-to-day work, must be insulated from political influence. Second, mandatory minimum sentence, three-strikes, life without parole, truth in sentencing, and similar laws must be repealed. Third, correctional and prosecution systems must be centralized in unified state agencies.

Incapacitation and Life Without Parole

2017 ◽  
pp. 183-198
Author(s):  
Jonathan R. Sorensen ◽  
Thomas J. Reidy
Keyword(s):  
Life Without Parole

The Legal Context

2020 ◽  
pp. xii-20
Author(s):  
Antoinette Kavanaugh ◽  
Thomas Grisso
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Legal Concept ◽  
Life Without Parole ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
Juvenile Sentencing ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Developmental Analysis

The chapter begins with a brief introduction, describing the scope and types of evaluations for juvenile sentencing in criminal court, offering the reader relevant terminology and an introduction to the book’s purpose. The primary focus of the chapter is on the relevant law for these evaluations. It describes relevant U.S. Supreme Court cases, especially Miller v. Alabama, which abolished mandatory life without parole sentences for juveniles and required developmental analysis to inform juvenile sentencing, as well as Montgomery v. Louisiana, which required resentencing for persons previously receiving mandatory life without parole sentences as juveniles. Miller’s definitions for the standards to be applied in juvenile sentencing and resentencing are then introduced and discussed: the legal concept of “irreparable corruption” and the five “Miller factors” defining characteristics of immaturity relevant for sentencing. Finally, the chapter describes the legal process for juvenile sentencing, identifying the role of Miller evaluations within that process.

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