"Yonder Stands Your Orphan With His Gun": The International Human Rights and Therapeutic Jurisprudence Implications of Juvenile Punishment Schemes

Date

2013

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Volume Title

Publisher

Texas Tech Law Review

Abstract

Explores the relationship between the incarceration of juveniles with mental disabilities and international human rights law, especially the CRPD, and will conclude that our current system of warehousing juveniles with mental illnesses in juvenile detention facilities and reformatories and in prisons following pre-adjudication transfers violates international human rights law, including, but not limited to, the CRC and the CRPD.

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Keywords

Mental status of incarcerated juveniles, Conditions of confinement, International human rights law, Therapeutic jurisprudence, Juvenile punishment schemes

Citation

Michael L. Perlin, "Yonder Stands Your Orphan With His Gun": The International Human Rights and Therapeutic Jurisprudence Implications of Juvenile Punishment Schemes, 46 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 301 (2013-2014)