***This was a document explaining the felony-murder rule in the United States. It skimmed over the history of how the rule origionated and why it is so prominent in affecting juveniles who are tired in adult court. Mostly an overlay of what the felony-murder rule is.
Steinberg, Laurence. Should Juvenile Offenders Be Tried as Adults? N.p.: CBS Interactive Inc., 2010. Web. 23 Mar. 2010. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2668_129/ai_69698409/>.
***Laurence Steinberg raised the important question of whether or not juveniles should be tried as adults in adult courts. He weights the pros and cons, providing strong points for each side. Juveniles are not adults and with that said there is no logical reason why a juvenile would be tried in adult court, they are a child!
"The Issue ." The National Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth. PDF. Gil Jawetz. Tide Center , n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2010. d.yimg.com/kq/groups/.../National+Campaign+one-pager+FINAL.pdf .
***The National Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of youth was a great website to find and utilize for my paper. The campaign is to promote fair sentencing for youth offenders in the United States and also throughout the world. It has gained much attention of the past few years, and every day more people are supporting it.
"The Issue ." The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth. Ed. Gil Jawetz. Tide Center , n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2010. http://www.endjlwop.org/the-issue/.
***This is the same website as the above citation, but is was a seperate file on the site. It asked rehtorial questions and answered them thorughly. Questions like 'what is the campaign for the fair sentencing of youth trying to solve?' and 'why is juvenile LWOP inappropriate for youth?'. These questions really made me think and gave me a fantastic start for my paper.
When Kids Get Life. Narr. Trevor Jones. Frontline, 2007. Web. 15 Apr. 2010.
***When Frontline teamed up with PBS and released a documentary titled When Kids Get Life, it got a lot of people talking. The documentary examined 5 Colorado criminal offenders who were sentenced to life in prison witout the possibility of parole for crimes they committed as juveniles. The filmed portrayed first hand how prominent this issue is in the state of Colorado alone, not to mention other states where they have a much greater number of people in prison for life for crimes committed as a juvenile.
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