There have been recent high-profile claims suggesting genetics and neuroscience are set to radically change the way we think about crime and punishment. Author Sam Harris, for example, argues that ...

In Miller v. Alabama, the United States Supreme Court, announced a legal principle that social science, neuroscience and common sense had long recognized: juveniles have “diminished culpability and ...

Senior Counsel Andrew Pilgrim said Roach’s level of culpability was low as a result of his diminished responsibility, while State Counsel Paul Prescod countered the level was high, despite the State ...

If a soldier’s brain has been so traumatized by combat that he cannot control some of the things that he does, how can he be held legally accountable for his actions? But then again, how can he not?

JURIST Senior Editor Elizabeth Imbarlina, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2014, argues that the US Supreme Court’s reasoning in Miller v. Alabama can be extended to abolish life in ...

Conviction for even a very serious crime does not extinguish a child offender’s claim to just treatment at the hands of the state, nor does it free the state to ignore the offender’s fundamental ...