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On the Same Page 2016: Just Mercy: Justice for Juveniles, Women, the Mentally Ill

Use this research guide to further explore the themes of this year's On the Same Page book

Juvnile Justice

The Death Penalty for Juveniles by Victor L. Streib
ISBN: 0253316154
Publication Date: 1987-12-01
This work explores the history and current status of the American experience with the death penalty for juveniles. Part I provides an explanation of the legal issues involved, focusing on issues of constitutionality. Part II presents an overview of known juvenile executions. Part III describes American juvenile death sentencing practices in the 80's.

Juvenile Life without Parole for Non-Homicide Offenses: Florida Compared to the Nation" (2009)
"Cruel and Unusual: Sentencing 13- and 14-Year Old Children to Die in Prison" (Equal Justice Initiative)
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, US Department of Justice
"Juvenile Justice: A Century of Change" US Department of Justice (1999)
What to Do with the Sheep in Wolf's Clothing: The Role of Rhetoric and REality ABout Youth Offenders in the Constructive Dismantling of the Juvenile Justice System"
University of Pennsylvania Law Review 148 (2000): 1303
Exploding the Superpredator Myth: Why Infancy Is the Preadolescent's Best Defense in Juvenile Court"
New York University Law REview 75 (2000): 159.
"Youth Vioence: A Report of the Surgeon General"
"Challenging the Myths" US Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Age Differences in Sensation Seeking and Impulsivity as Indexed by Behavior and Self-Report,"
Developmental Psychology 44 (2008): 1764.
Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology 5 (2009): 459.

From Attention to Goal-Directed Behavior by Francisco Aboitiz (Editor); Diego Cosmelli (Editor)
ISBN: 9783540705734
Publication Date: 2008-11-21
Stevenson cites the chapter "The Maturation of Cognitive Control and the Adolescent Brain"

(Im)maturity of Judgment in Adolescence: Why Adolescents May be Less Culpable than Adults" (article)
Behavioral Science and Law 18 (2000): 741.
Adolescent Decision-Making (article)
Journal of Adolescence 12 (1989): 265
"How to Adolescents See Their Future? A Review of the Development of Future Orientation and Planning" (article)
Developmental Review 11 (1991):1

Juvenile Justice - Statistics

Report of the Sentencing Project to the United Nations Human Rights Committee Regarding Racial Disparities in the United States Criminal Justice System (August 2013)

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2014 National Report (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention)

Statistical Briefing Book (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention)

Trends in U.S. Corrections U.S. State and Federal Prison Populations, 1925-2014 (Fact sheet) (The Sentencing Project)

Criminal Justice and Women

Bound by Injustice: Challenging the Use of Shackles on Incarcerated Pregnant Women"

Cardozo Journal of Law and Gender 15 (2009: 477
State Standards for Pregnancy Related Health Care and Abortion for Women in Prisons (ACLU)
Case Summaries for Current Female Death Row Inmates
The Control of Pregnancy and the Criminalization of Femaleness"

Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice 7 (2013): 1

Criminal Justice and the Mentally Ill

Legal Rights and Mental Health Care

Stanley S Herr; Stephen Arons; Richard E Wallace
Publisher: Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, ©1983.
Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates," Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report (2006)
More Mentally Ill Persons Are in Jails and Prisons than Hospitals: A Survey of the States" Treatment Advocacy Center (2010)