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It was discussed as a newly released book by Dr. Garberino, who explained his concerns regarding the legal system's handling of teenage killers and their potential for rehabilitation, focusing on the Miller v. Alabama ruling.
I have a new book that's just come out called Miller's Children by giving teenage killers a second chance matters for all of us
— Episode: Episode 114
Episode: Episode 114
It was discussed as a newly released book by Dr. Garberino, who explained his concerns regarding the legal system's handling of teenage killers and their potential for rehabilitation, focusing on the Miller v. Alabama ruling.
I have a new book that's just come out called Miller's Children by giving teenage killers a second chance matters for all of us
And I think there's a fundamental problem in the way courts have decided these cases that they're making what I believe is the false assumption that the nature of a teenager's crime predicts their potential and the reality of their rehabilitation.
And I haven't ever seen any evidence that demonstrates that having met Josh Phillips, having read about him and read other reports on him and I think that he is rehabilitated.
Probably very limited in my book Millers Children about the rehabilitation transformation of teenage killers.
There is a chapter called Are There Exceptions? And the two classes of exception seem to be kids who are so profoundly damaged in early childhood through really traumatic severe abuse that they never get a chance to develop the normal human range of feelings and relationships.