Miller's Children: Why Giving Teenage Killers a Second Chance Matters for All of Us

by James Garbarino

Book Overview

Miller's Children is a passionate and comprehensive look at the human consequences of the US Supreme Court's decision in the case of Miller v. Alabama, which outlaws mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile murderers. The decision to apply the law retroactively to other cases has provided hope to those convicted of murders as teenagers and had been incarcerated with the expectation that they would never leave prison until...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520295684
• ISBN13: 9780520295681
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"