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Landmark Shifts in Youth Offender Sentencing Laws

Meta Description: Understand the crucial distinctions in youth offender sentencing, from the focus on rehabilitation and ‘blended’ sentences to the landmark US Supreme Court rulings that ban life without parole for most juvenile offenses. Learn how the law treats children differently than adults. When a young person breaks the law, the approach of the justice

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Prosecutorial discretion in US federal courts

Landmark Shifts in Youth Offender Sentencing Laws