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NoteVol. 92 · Iss. 5
The Inbetweeners: Standardizing Juvenileness and Recognizing Emerging Adulthood for Sentencing Purposes After Miller
In June 2012, the United States Supreme Court decided Miller v. Alabama, marking significant progress in the Court’s Eighth Amendment jurisprudence regarding juvenile offenders.…
Kevin J. Holt -
ArticleVol. 92 · Iss. 2
Zero Tolerance Policies: Criminalizing Childhood and Disenfranchising the Next Generation of Citizens
Columbine High School, Littleton, Colorado. Heath High School, West Paducah, Kentucky. Westside Middle School, Jonesboro, Arkansas. Zero tolerance policies were adopted in these schools…
S. David Mitchell -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 4
The Law of Emerging Adults
Law tends to divide people into two groups based on age: children and adults. The age of majority provides a bright line between two…
Clare Ryan -
CommentaryVol. 91 · Iss. 3
Misconstruing Graham & Miller
In the last three years, the Supreme Court has decreed a sea change in its juvenile Eighth Amendment jurisprudence. In particular, in Graham v.…
Cara H. Drinan -
NoteVol. 91 · Iss. 3
Returning “Decision” to School Discipline Decisions: An Analysis of Recent, Anti-Zero Tolerance Legislation
Public school districts across America are evaluating the effectiveness of zero tolerance school discipline policies. Initially developed in the 1980s to combat the war…
Rebecca Morton -
NoteVol. 91 · Iss. 2
Juvenile Life Without Parole Post- Miller: The Long, Treacherous Road Towards a Categorical Rule
For the better part of a decade, life without the possibility of parole (“LWOP”) has been the United States’ harshest constitutional penalty for juvenile…
Sean Craig -
ArticleVol. 90 · Iss. 5
Blackness as Delinquency
This is one of the first law review article to analyze both the role of ?blackness? in shaping the first juvenile court and the…
Cheryl Nelson Butler -
NoteVol. 89 · Iss. 2
Sex Offenders Are Different: Extending Graham to Categorically Protect the Less Culpable
Phillip Alpert was seventeen years old when his then-sixteen-year-old girlfriend sent him nude photos. A year later at age eighteen, during a breakup, Alpert…
Eric J. Buske