March 2018 - Alabaster Investigations

Crime and the Adolescent Brain – Justice Policy Institute

by Gabriel Alkhdour | Mar 11, 2018 | Law and Justice

When the Supreme Court banned capital punishment for crimes that were committed when a defendant was under the age of 18, it ruled that “standards of decency” had evolved to recognize that a juvenile’s “lack of maturity and an underdeveloped sense of responsibility”...