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Download full textChen, Ann – 1998
Each year the Constitutional Rights Foundation creates a mock trial that addresses serious matters facing young people. This year the lesson confronts the recent shootings at U.S. schools and the subsequent criminal trials. The nature of such violence and its causes including unresolved peer conflict, questions of responsibility, peer pressure,…
Descriptors: Competition, Court Litigation, Gun Control, High Schools
Peer reviewedUpdate on Law-Related Education, 2000
Discusses whether the imposition of capital punishment on an individual for a crime committed as a juvenile constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Explores the crimes of Kevin Stanford and David Allen who were 16 and 17 respectively when they each committed murder. (CMK)
Descriptors: Capital Punishment, Delinquency, Delinquent Rehabilitation, Homicide
