Yearly Archives: 2015

Teenage Brain Development and Criminal Behavior

Research and understanding into teenage brain development is impacting how adolescents are dealt with in criminal cases.

Reoffending Rates And Why Prisons Are Failing

If the aims of prisons are to punish, deter and rehabilitate in order to reduce reoffending rates, they are not working particularly well.

Juvenile Life Without Parole Sentences: Are They Justified?

When a juvenile life without parole sentence is given, there is no reform, no rehabilitation and no chance of release. Life means life.

Does Our Modern Prison System Work?

An assumption that the simple imprisonment of an individual away from their community will automatically produce a level of reform is naive. Prisons, it could be said, are communities of their own and humans are remarkable at adaptation.

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