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3Qs: How young is too young for life in prison?
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments related to two separate murder cases in which 14-year-olds were sentenced to life without parole. The court will take up the constitutionality of such a sentence for juveniles. We asked Mary O’Connell — a professor in Northeastern’s School of Law with expertise in youth and family law — to examine the impact of the court’s ultimate ruling and explain how juvenile cases are handled differently than adult cases.
Selected Publications
For a complete list of faculty citations, please visit iRis, Northeastern’s digital archive.
The Family Law Education Reform Project Final Report
44 Family Court Review 524, October 2006.
Parent Education’s Second Generation: Integrating Violence Sensitivity
(with Fuhrmann and McGill), 37 Family and Conciliation Courts Review 24, 1999.
Contingent Lives: The Economic Insecurity of Contingent Workers
52 Washington and Lee Law Review 889, 1995.
