Research Library

• Children are Capable of Positive Change: Proven Policies in Youth Sentencing

The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth 
July 2026

• Not a Monolith: Perspectives from Survivors of Youth Violence

The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth & Baker McKenzie
June 2026

• A Decade After Montgomery v. Louisiana: Progress, Gaps, and the Promise of Meaningful Review for Children Serving Extreme Sentences

The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth
January 2026

• Criteria and Procedures for Meaningful Parole Review for People Sentenced as Youth

Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse. Endorsed by the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth.
April 2024

• Unusual & Unequal: The unfinished business of ending life without parole for children in the United States

The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth
April 2024

• Racial Disparities Fact Sheet February 2023

The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth
February 2023

• Fact Sheet: Second Chances for Children in the Criminal Legal System

         The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth and the National Center for Victims of Crime
         January 2023

• National trends in sentencing children to life without parole

         The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth
         June 2022

• Racial Disparities Fact Sheet March 2022

The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth
March 2022

• Montgomery v. Louisiana Six Years Later Progress and Outliers

The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth
January 2022

• The Origins of the Superpredator: The Child Study Movement to Today

The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth
May 2021

• National Trends in sentencing children to life without parole

The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth
February 2021

• Montgomery v. Louisiana Anniversary: Four Years Since the U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Montgomery v. Louisiana

The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth
January 2020

• Montgomery Momentum: Two Years of Progress Since Montgomery v. Louisiana
  The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth
  January 2018

• A Shared Sentence: The Devastating Toll of Parental Incarceration on Kids, Families and Communities
  The Annie. E Casey Foundation
  April 2016

• Restoring Justice: A Blueprint for Ensuring Fairness, Safety, and Supportive Treatment of LGBT Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
  By Aisha C. Moodie-Mills and Christina Gilbert, Center for American Progress and The Equity Project
  December 2014
• Sticker Shock: Calculating the Full Price Tag for Youth Incarceration
  Justice Policy Institute
  December 2014
• Life Goes On: The Historic Rise in Life Sentences in America
  The Sentencing Project
  September 2013
• Gideon at 50: Three Reforms to Revive the Right to Counsel
  Brennan Center for Justice
  April 2013
• Common Ground: Lessons Learned from Five States that Reduced Juvenile Confinement by More than Half
  Justice Policy Institute
  February 2013
• The State of Sentencing 2012: Developments in Policy and Practice
  The Sentencing Project
  January 2013
• Advances in Juvenile Justice Reform: 2009-2011
  National Juvenile Justice Network
  July 2012
• Cruel and Unusual: U.S. Sentencing Practices in a Global Context
  University of San Francisco School of Law
  May 2012
• The Lives of Juvenile Lifers: Findings from a National Survey
  Ashley Nellis, The Sentencing Project
  March 2012
• Against All Odds: Prison Conditions for Youth Offenders Serving Life without Parole Sentences in the United States
  Human Rights Watch
  January 2012
• Defending Childhood
  Attorney General’s National Taskforce on Children Exposed to Violence
  2012
• You’re an Adult Now: Youth in the Adult Criminal Justice System
  National Institute of Corrections
  December 2011
• Moving Beyond Sides: The Power and Potential of a New Public Safety Policy Paradigm
  Partnership for Safety and Justice
  December 2011
• A Just Alternative to Sentencing Youth to Life in Prison Without the Possibility of Parole
  American Constitution Society, Jody Kent and Beth Colgan
  March 2010
• Cruel & unusual: Sentencing 13 and 14 year old children to die in prison
  Equal Justice Initiative
  November 2007
• The rest of their lives: Life without parole for child offenders in the United States
  Amnesty International & Human Rights Watch
  2005