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In Defense of Developmental Science in Juvenile Sentencing: A Response to Christopher Berk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2019

Elizabeth Scott  and
Laurence Steinberg
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Symposium on Christopher Berk’s “The Troubled Foundations of Miller v. Alabama”
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , August 2019 , pp. 780 - 786
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© 2019 American Bar Foundation 

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CASES CITED

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