Sentencing Law and Policy: "The Origins of the Superpredator: The Child Study Movement to Today"
"The Origins of the Superpredator: The Child Study Movement to Today" The title of this post is the title of this notable new report from the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth. Here is its introduction: The 1995 superpredator narrative is often called out as the impetus for our nation's harmful sentencing policies for Black children. After all, 75 percent of all kids sentenced to life without parole (JLWOP) were sentenced in the 90s or later, and 70 percent of this population are kids of color (60 percent Black). But the pseudo-scientific, unsubstantiated, and racialized superpr...
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