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Formal, Categorical, But Incomplete: The Need for a New Standard in Evaluating Prior Convictions Under the Armed Career Criminal Act

NCJ Number

226065

Journal

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Date Published

2008

Life Without Parole, America's Other Death Penalty: Notes on Life Under Sentence of Death by Incarceration

NCJ Number

223487

Journal

The Prison Journal

Date Published

June 2008

Scandinavian Exceptionalism in an Era of Penal Excess: Part II: Does Scandinavian Exceptionalism Have a Future?

NCJ Number

223079

Journal

British Journal of Criminology

Date Published

May 2008

Supermax Prisons in the Consciousness of Prisoners

NCJ Number

221856

Journal

The Prison Journal

Date Published

March 2008

"When I Die, They'll Send Me Home"; Youth Sentenced to Life without Parole in California

NCJ Number

221400

Date Published

January 2008

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Cruel and Unusual: Sentencing 13- and 14-Year-Old Children to Die in Prison

NCJ Number

221399

Date Published

November 2007

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Examining the Influence of Matza's Principles of Justice and Their Impact on Reverse Waiver Decisions: Has Kadi-(In)Justice Survived?

NCJ Number

221012

Journal

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

Date Published

January 2008

Pros and Cons of Life Without Parole

NCJ Number

219865

Journal

British Journal of Criminology

Date Published

July 2007

Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice Annual Report 2006

Date Published

December 2006

Publication Type

Report (Annual/Periodic)

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Homicides by Males and Females in India--the Domestic Context

NCJ Number

218337

Journal

International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice

Date Published

2006

Locked Away Forever: The Case Against Juvenile Life Without Parole

NCJ Number

216634

Journal

Youth Law News

Date Published

July 2006

Nothing to Lose?: A Comparative Examination of Prison Misconduct Rates Among Life-Without-Parole and Other Long-Term High-Security Inmates

NCJ Number

216453

Journal

Criminal Justice and Behavior: An International Journal

Date Published

December 2006

"Unregarded Age in Corners Thrown": An Answer to the Issues of Healthcare for Older Prisoners (From Ageing, Crime and Society, P 193-209, 2006, Azrini Wahidin and Maureen Cain, eds. -- See NCJ-216056)

NCJ Number

216067

Date Published

2006

Life at Fifteen--053803

NCJ Number

214549

Date Published

2006

Is There Life After Imprisonment? How Elderly Men Talk About Imprisonment and Release

NCJ Number

213344

Journal

Criminology & Criminal Justice

Date Published

February 2006

Mature Coping Among Life-Sentenced Inmates: An Exploratory Study of Adjustment Dynamics

NCJ Number

212827

Journal

Corrections Compendium

Date Published

November 2005

Technology Tells of Torture

NCJ Number

211818

Date Published

2000

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NIJ-Sponsored

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Effects of Imprisonment

NCJ Number

211241

Date Published

2005

Loss, Liminality and the Life Sentence: Managing Identity Through a Disrupted Lifecourse (From The Effects of Imprisonment, P 366-388, 2005, Alison Liebling and Shadd Maruna, eds. -- See NCJ-211241)

NCJ Number

211254

Date Published

2005

Myth of Innocence

NCJ Number

210383

Journal

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Date Published

2005

New Jersey Department of Corrections: Offender Characteristics Report, 2004

NCJ Number

210186

Date Published

December 2004

Publication Link

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Why the Failure of the Prison Service and Parole Board to Acknowledge Wrongful Imprisonment is Untenable

NCJ Number

208808

Journal

Howard Journal of Criminal Justice

Date Published

February 2005

Revolutionizing Prison Hospice: The Interdisciplinary Approach of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola

NCJ Number

206912

Journal

Corrections Compendium

Date Published

July 2004

Should Jurors be Informed About Parole Eligibility in Death Penalty Cases? An Analysis of Kelly v. South Carolina

NCJ Number

206834

Journal

The Prison Journal

Date Published

September 2004

Risk Assessment and Criminal Law: Closing the Gap Between Criminal Law and Criminology (From Punishment, Places and Perpetrators: Developments in Criminology and Criminal Justice Research, P 41-61, 2004, Gerben Bruinsma, Henk Elffers, et al., eds. -- See NCJ-206450)

NCJ Number

206453

Date Published

2004