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Caitlyn Greene

Juvenile brains are different, their mens rea analysis should be too

Courts should apply a child-centered mens rea analysis for all cases adjudicating juveniles, also known as the “reasonable child”...

Jaxzia Perez

The foster care-to-prison pipeline: A road to incarceration

In 2020, the Children’s Bureau at the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the United States Department of Health and...

Kirsten Rowe

Influence of childhood trauma on perpetrators of mass shootings

In yet another mass shooting, a teenage gunman took the lives of 13 individuals at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York on May 14,...

Jackie Solomon

Visitation: Can it do more for juvenile offenders?

According to Haley Walker’s article, School-to-Prison Pipeline, juvenile offenders are “ten times more likely” than the rest of the...

Breann Bell

How HB 459 will update Maryland’s outdated juvenile legal system

Maryland has been making changes to its juvenile legislation, and the state most recently passed the Juvenile Restoration Act (JRA),...

Danielle Davis

Rebranding the school to prison pipeline: From classroom to Zoom room

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March 2020, students across the country adapted to online, distance learning—a reality that...

Isabel Hagood

The path to ending juvenile life without parole

The United States is the only country in the world that sentences children under the age of eighteen to life imprisonment. Juvenile life...

Madison Howard

Second chances: A look at D.C.’s second look act

Prisoners who committed offenses in their youths are finally getting a second chance. D.C. recently passed the Second Look Amendment Act,...

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