Source: (2013) Texas Tech Law Review. 46:187-279.
In preparation for participation in Professor Arnold Loewy’s Texas
Tech University School of Law Annual Criminal Law Symposium, I was
tasked with a specific query: Do (should) juveniles have more, less, the
same, or different procedural rights than are accorded to adults? This
Article briefly addresses the procedural rights of adults-delineating,
contrasting, and comparing them to the rights of children within the
modern juvenile justice process, primarily within the State of Texas. This
histology of juvenile rights highlights the fundamental ongoing
criminalization of our children. We must dissect the way we treat children
accused of a violation of the criminal law at the very organic or cellular
level. It is time to ignore the lies of the correctional monster we have
created-a monster that must be continually fed with the lives of our young. (exdcerpt)
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