Still Cruel and Unusual: Extreme Sentences for Youth and Emerging Adults

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The evidence provided in this brief supports bold reforms for youth and emerging adults sentenced to extreme punishments.

Developmental Links Between Ethnic and Racial Discrimination and Sleep

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A robust literature is developing around how the stress of discrimination is implicated in individual- and group-level sleep disturbances, and how these disturbances contribute to the development of population-level sleep disparities over time. Although discrimination can be based on many individual and intersecting biases, like gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, and education, in this article, we…

Trauma-Focused Justice: Recognizing Systemic Trauma 

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This article situates trauma within the Supreme Court’s mitigation framework for adolescents. The framework is based on the developmental research recognized by the Supreme Court in three landmark cases—Roper v. Simmons, Graham v. Florida, and Miller v. Alabama.

State of Washington v. Kimonti D. Carter and Shawn Dee Reite

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The Second Look Movement: A Review of the Nation’s Sentence Review Laws

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This report presents the evolution of the second look movement, which started with ensuring compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in Graham v. Florida (2010) and Miller v. Alabama (2012) on the constitutionality of juvenile life without parole (“JLWOP”) sentences.12 This reform has more recently expanded to other types of sentences and populations, such…

Racial Differences in Legal Socialization Models Across Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

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Toward Mercy: Excessive Sentencing and the Untapped Power of North Carolina’s Constitution

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Commonwealth v. Sheldon Mattis

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People v. Parks Opinion

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In the Matter of Monschke Opinion

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