Additional Resources

American Bar Association Juvenile Justice Center

• Evolving Standards of Decency (PDF)
• Adolescent Brain Development and Legal Culpability (PDF)

Amnesty International

• “The Exclusion of Child Offenders from the Death Penalty Under General International Law”
• “Indecent and Internationally Illegal: the Death Penalty Against Child Offenders”

Time Magazine Article, ​“What Makes Teens Tick,” May 10, 2004

Scripps Howard News Service Article, ​“New research shows stark dif­fer­ences in teen brains,” May 11, 2004

Wall Street Journal Article, ​“Psychiatrists Question Death for Teen Killers,” May 26, 2004

Ferdinand, Pamela, ​“Seventeen an Awkward Age, N.H. Juvenile Justice Finds: In Reversal, State Moves to Raise Criminal Adulthood to 18,” Washington Post, March 27, 2002 at A03.

Bonner, Raymond and Rimer, Sara, ​“Young and Condemned/​A Special Report: Whether to Kill Those Who Killed as Youths” New York Times, August 22, 2000.

DPIC Resources

• Podcast: Protecting Especially Vulnerable Defendants from the Death Penalty
• Report: Racial Disparities in Death Sentences Imposed on Late Adolescent Offenders Have Grown Since Supreme Court Ruling Banning Juvenile Death Penalty
• American Psychological Association Overwhelmingly Votes to Adopt Resolution Opposing Death Penalty for Adolescents Aged 18 – 20

Archival DPIC Content

• Juveniles News and Developments 2000
• Juveniles News and Developments 2001
• Juveniles News and Developments 2002
• Juveniles News and Developments 2003
• Juveniles News and Developments 2004
• Juveniles News and Developments 2005
• Juveniles News and Developments 2008

Information and Analysis

• Age at Which All Suspects Are Tried as Adults

Articles and Other Publications

• Capital Punishment Trials of Youthful Offenders: The Impact of ACE’s Mitigation (2023)
• Roper and Race: the Nature and Effects of Death Penalty Exclusions for Juveniles and the ​“Late Adolescent Class” (2023)
• Connecticut Supreme Court Holds Sentence Based on Discredited Superpredator Myth Is Illegal (2022)
• Making the Sentencing Case: Psychological and Neuroscientific Evidence for Expanding the Age of Youthful Offenders (2022)
• They Went to Prison as Kids, Now They’re on Death Row (2020)