RT Book
T1 In defense of juveniles sentenced to life: legal representation and juvenile criminal justice
T2 Routledge contemporary issues in criminal justice and procedure
T2 Routledge focus
A1 Kokkalera, Stuti
LA English
PP London New York
PB Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1807946843
AB The meaning of a meaningful opportunity -- The evolving right to legal representation -- What about effective legal representation for juvenile lifers? -- Study setting, data, and methods -- Contextualizing the role of counsel in parole -- Conclusion : in defense of juveniles sentenced to life.
AB "This book examines how attorneys enable a meaningful opportunity for parole 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"--
NO Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Northeastern University, 2020) issued under title: Affording a meaningful opportunity of release : legal representation of juvenile lifers
NO Literaturangaben und ein Sachregister
CN KF337.5.J88
SN 9781032052991
SN 9781032053028
K1 Legal assistance to juvenile delinquents : United States
K1 Life Imprisonment : United States
K1 Juvenile parole : United States
K1 USA : Jugendlicher Täter : Jugendstrafrecht : Jugendstrafe : Lebenslange Freiheitsstrafe : Bewährung