Race and the fragility of the legal distinction between juveniles and adults.

Legal precedent establishes juvenile offenders as inherently less culpable than adult offenders and thus protects juveniles from the most severe of punishments. But how fragile might these protections be? In the present study, simply bringing to mind a Black (vs. White) juvenile offender led partici...

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Main Authors: Aneeta Rattan, Cynthia S Levine, Carol S Dweck, Jennifer L Eberhardt
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/fa02f4a5a68443a7ae6282a801f0d20c
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