Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Justice System

Date:  10-06-2022 Authors of the report say the impact of FAS should be part of an approach they call "therapeutic jurisprudence"

From The Crime Report: The link between Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and criminal behavior is rarely acknowledged as a mitigating factor in U.S. jurisprudence, says a New York Law School Legal Studies Research Paper. About a quarter of children in juvenile corrections have FAS, and between 11 percent and 25 percent of incarcerated adults have been diagnosed with FAS, according to the paper. But FAS is rarely taken into consideration by courts during sentencing decisions, write New York Law School professors Michael L. Perlin and Heather Cucolo, authors of the paper. Continue reading>>>