"Sentencing Youth to Life in Prison: Justice Denied" to Be Published

 

 

    Kathi Milliken-Boyd and I are happy to announce that our new book “Sentencing Youth to Life in Prison: Justice Denied” will be published by Routledge on April 8, 2022.

   Our book analyzes the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court rulings deeming juvenile life without parole sentences to be cruel and unusual punishment. These Court decisions brought about controversy and resistance in the criminal justice field, while at the same time providing hope for those 2,300 people who had been sentenced as juveniles to life without parole -- and never thought they had a chance to experience life as an adult outside prison. 

    By looking in depth at the lives of some of the individuals serving life terms and by trying to understand both the prosecutors who opposed review and resentencing of juvenile lifers and those who are sincerely following the Supreme Court’s guidelines, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the issues – as well as the people – involved in the sentencing (and potential resentencing) of juveniles to life without the possibility of parole.  

     "Sentencing Youth to Life in Prison: Justice Denied" takes the position that the sentence of life without the possibility of parole for youth is wasteful of both human lives and scarce public resources. We try, though, to write about the human concerns on both sides of the question, and, ultimately, we allow our readers to make your own decisions about how society should best handle juvenile offenders. 

    We hope that this book is engaging and that our ethnographic treatment will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, corrections, juvenile justice, and delinquency; practitioners working in social policy; and everyone else who is interested in a criminal justice system capable of positive outcomes for justice-involved youth. 

     You can check the listing on Amazon at: 

https://www.amazon.com/Sentencing-Youth-Life-Prison-Justice-dp-1032064420/dp/1032064420/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=


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