Miller's Children (eBook)

Why Giving Teenage Killers a Second Chance Matters for All of Us

James Garbarino (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
216 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520968363 (ISBN)

Infos

Miller's Childrenis a passionate and comprehensive look at the human consequences of the US Supreme Court's decision in the case ofMiller v. Alabama,whichoutlaws mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile murderers. The decision to apply the law retroactively to other cases has provided hope to those convicted of murders as teenagers and had been incarcerated with the expectation that they would never leave prison until their own death as incarcerated adults. Psychological expert witness James Garbarino shares his fieldwork in more than forty resentencing cases of juveniles affected by the Miller decision. Providing a wide-ranging review of current research on human development in adolescence and early adulthood, he shows how studies reveal the adolescent mind's keen ability for malleability, suggesting the true potential for rehabilitation. Garbarino focuses on how and why some convicted teenage murderers have been able to accomplish dramatic rehabilitation and transformation, emphasizing the role of education, reflection, mentoring, and spiritual development. With a deft hand, he shows us the prisoners' world that is filled, first and foremost, with stories of hope amid despair, and moral and psychological recovery in the face of developmental insult and damage.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Preface

1 • Adolescence Squared: Why Are Kids Who Kill Different?
2 • Who Are They?
3 • The Moral Calculus: A Life for a Life?
4 • Running Away from the Monster
5 • Are There Exceptions?
6 • Translating Hope into Law and Practice

References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.2.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Besonderes Strafrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: adolescence • Alabama • death sentence • Early adulthood • Education • Human Development • incarcerated adults • life without parole • Mentoring • miller v alabama • minors in jail • Murder • Prison • psychological recovery • reflection • Rehabilitation • Spiritual development • stories of hope • Supreme Court • teenage murderers • Transformation • United States
• ISBN-13: 9780520968363 / 9780520968363