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"Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP): An Antidote to Congress?s One-Way Criminal Law Ratchet?"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this forthcoming article by Scott Hechinger, which appears to be among the first major pieces of scholarship seeking to take stock of the LWOP landscape in the wake of the Supreme Court's Graham decision. As the abstract reveals, the piece also has some interesting things to say about how Congress deals with sentencing issues: Despite Justice Kennedy?s implicit approval of life-without-parole sentences for crimes committed before the age of 18 (?JLWOP?) in Roper v. Simmons, the issue of JLWOP has since generated a wave of attention and advocacy from scholars, bloggers, and journalists, human rights organizations, state legislatures, and international bodies, victims and children?s rights groups, and federal and state courts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 27, 2010 (boomark / email).