In Defense of Juveniles Sentenced to Life
eBook - ePub

In Defense of Juveniles Sentenced to Life

Legal Representation and Juvenile Criminal Justice

  1. 68 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

In Defense of Juveniles Sentenced to Life

Legal Representation and Juvenile Criminal Justice

About this book

This book examines how attorneys enable a meaningful opportunity for release for individuals sentenced to life as juveniles. The work provides a detailed overview of how legal representation facilitates opportunities for release for juveniles sentenced to life: "juvenile lifers". It contributes to the broader literature on the importance of legal representation in the criminal legal system by investigating the role of an attorney in the parole process. Drawing on interviews with lawyers and qualitative content analyses of attorney participation in parole recordings from one state, the study illustrates how attorney assistance provides an important due process protection in the highly discretionary context of parole. The analysis of attorney representation is situated in the history of how they became prominent in the criminal legal system, and how their assistance has been viewed as vital in the parole process. Prior criminological and legal research relates the impact a lawyer can have by preparing a juvenile lifer candidate to present a suitable narrative for release, one that relates their diminished criminal culpability and rehabilitative efforts to prepare for life beyond prison. The work will be relevant to students, academics, and policy makers, particularly for state parole boards, public defender agencies, and legislatures. While the analysis is based on the experience of one state, the findings are generalizable to other states and countries that similarly conduct parole board hearings for not just their juvenile populations but also adults.

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Yes, you can access In Defense of Juveniles Sentenced to Life by Stuti S. Kokkalera,Stuti Kokkalera in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Law & Comparative Law. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781032052991
eBook ISBN
9781000643909
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Table of Abbreviations
  9. Table of Cases
  10. Table of Legislation
  11. Introduction: In Defense of Youth
  12. 1 The Meaning of a Meaningful Opportunity
  13. 2 The Evolving Right to Legal Representation
  14. 3 What about Effective Legal Representation for Juvenile Lifers?
  15. 4 Study Setting, Data, and Methods
  16. 5 Contextualizing the Role of Counsel in Parole
  17. 6 Conclusion—In Defense of Juvenile Sentenced to Life
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index