In defense of juveniles sentenced to life: legal representation and juvenile criminal justice

by Kokkalera, Stuti S.

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Title Statements

Full title :In defense of juveniles sentenced to life : legal representation and juvenile criminal justice / Stuti S. Kokkalera.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2022

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2022

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"Routledge Focus"--PDF image of cover.

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Northeastern University, 2020) issued under title: Affording a meaningful opportunity of release : legal representation of juvenile lifers.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (x, 67 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1000643891, 9781003196914, 1003196918, 9781000643909, 1000643905, 9781000643893
DOI:10.4324/9781003196914
oclc:on1330690159
LC Classification:KF337.5.J88
Dewey Decimal:345.73/08

Subjects

Juvenile parole Juvenile parole -- United States Law -- Child Advocacy LAW -- Comparative Law -- General Legal assistance to juvenile delinquents Legal assistance to juvenile delinquent… Life imprisonment Life imprisonment -- United States United States