Behavioral science and the juvenile death penalty

Bull Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 1989;17(3):301-9.

Abstract

Behavioral science data included in an amicus brief has been introduced into a recent Supreme Court decision (Thompson v. Oklahoma) involving the juvenile death penalty. However, a close examination of the data fails to provide support for either the pro- or antijuvenile death penalty position.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Brain / physiopathology
  • Capital Punishment / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Psychology, Adolescent*
  • Societies, Medical / legislation & jurisprudence
  • United States