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James Garbarino: Miller’s Children: Why Giving Teenage Killers a Second Chance Matters for All of Us

James Garbarino: Miller’s Children: Why Giving Teenage Killers a Second Chance Matters for All of Us Adolescent Research Review (2019) 4:383–386 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40894-018-0098-z BOOK RE VIE W James Garbarino: Miller’s Children: Why Giving Teenage Killers a Second Chance Matters for All of Us University of California Press, Oakland, CA: 2018, 216 pp, ISBN: 9780520295681 Rachel Stopchinski Received: 28 September 2018 / Accepted: 1 October 2018 / Published online: 16 October 2018 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018 Are teenage killers cold-blooded murderers, meant to be (Garbarino 2018, p. 11). Teenage killers don’t play with a locked-away and forgotten, or traumatized youth in need of “full deck” due to their immature brains, and for many, their structure and therapeutic intervention? In Miller’s Children: decisionmaking is further inhibited due to the “developmen- Why Giving Teenage Killers a Second Chance Matters for tal consequences of adverse life circumstances” (Garborino All of Us, the author, James Garbarino, strives to provide 2018, p. 11). Garbarino emphasizes the importance of a social science context to the seminal Miller v. Alabama case, child’s environment by introducing the Center for Disease in which the Supreme Court held that a life sentence without Control and Prevention’s Adverse Childhood Events (ACE) parole for a juvenile homicide offender is “cruel and unu- Questionnaire. ACE scores, which count the number of risk- sual punishment” and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Adolescent Research Review Springer Journals

James Garbarino: Miller’s Children: Why Giving Teenage Killers a Second Chance Matters for All of Us

Stopchinski, Rachel
Adolescent Research Review , Volume 4 (4) – Oct 16, 2018
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2018 by Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Psychiatry; Neurosciences; Child and School Psychology; Criminology and Criminal Justice, general; Educational Psychology
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2363-8346
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2363-8354
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10.1007/s40894-018-0098-z
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Adolescent Research Review (2019) 4:383–386 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40894-018-0098-z BOOK RE VIE W James Garbarino: Miller’s Children: Why Giving Teenage Killers a Second Chance Matters for All of Us University of California Press, Oakland, CA: 2018, 216 pp, ISBN: 9780520295681 Rachel Stopchinski Received: 28 September 2018 / Accepted: 1 October 2018 / Published online: 16 October 2018 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018 Are teenage killers cold-blooded murderers, meant to be (Garbarino 2018, p. 11). Teenage killers don’t play with a locked-away and forgotten, or traumatized youth in need of “full deck” due to their immature brains, and for many, their structure and therapeutic intervention? In Miller’s Children: decisionmaking is further inhibited due to the “developmen- Why Giving Teenage Killers a Second Chance Matters for tal consequences of adverse life circumstances” (Garborino All of Us, the author, James Garbarino, strives to provide 2018, p. 11). Garbarino emphasizes the importance of a social science context to the seminal Miller v. Alabama case, child’s environment by introducing the Center for Disease in which the Supreme Court held that a life sentence without Control and Prevention’s Adverse Childhood Events (ACE) parole for a juvenile homicide offender is “cruel and unu- Questionnaire. ACE scores, which count the number of risk- sual punishment” and

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Adolescent Research Review – Springer Journals

Published: Oct 16, 2018

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  • Millers children: Why giving teenage killers a second chance matters for all of us
    Garbarino, J