Juvenile Due Process: Applying Contract Principles to Ensure Voluntary Criminal Confessions

Juvenile Due Process: Applying Contract Principles to Ensure Voluntary Criminal Confessions

Recognition that juveniles are limited in their decisionmaking informs most areas of the law. In recent years, the Supreme Court has afforded enhanced protections to youth in the criminal context due to their developmental immaturity and heightened state of vulnerability. But the current legal framework surrounding interrogations and the admissibility of confessions does not sufficiently protect youth from coercive interrogation practices.

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