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Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, Campaign for Fair Sentencing of Youth, et al. In Support of Respondent Lee Boyd Malvo

Keywords adolescents; brain; culpability; blameworthiness; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); juvenile death penalty; execution; minors; Stanford; youth; youthful offender; Atkins; confession; proportionality analysis; murder

Using risk of crime detection to study change in mechanisms of decision making

Keywords Perception of risk; Deterrence; Rational choice; Developmental; Stability

Neuroscience and the Model Penal Code's Mens Rea Categories

Keywords Neurolaw; Neuroscience; Criminal Law; Model Penal Code; Brain Imaging; Behavioral Science; Psychology

Detecting Mens Rea in the Brain

Keywords mens rea; knowing; reckless; model penal code; criminal law; fMRI; neuroscience

Development of the triadic neural systems involved in risky decision-making during childhood

Keywords Risky decision-making; childhood; adolescence; Triadic Neural Systems Model; fMRI; Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART); prefrontal cortex; striatum; functional connectivity; neurocognitive development

The role of sibling aggression during childhood in decision-making during adulthood

Keywords Sibling Aggression; Decision Making; Cognitive Development; Childhood Experiences

Substance use-related alterations of social decision-making in a longitudinal cohort of young adults

Keywords Adolescent psychiatry; Longitudinal study; Neurodevelopmental impact; Prosocial behavior; Social decision making; Substance use

The relationship between mental health and risky decision-making in children and adolescents: A scoping review

Keywords Risky Decision-Making; Adolescent Mental Health; Internalizing Problems; Externalizing Problems; Scoping Review

The Miller Trilogy, Jones, and the Future of Juvenile Sentencing and Constitutional Interpretation in the Post-Jones America

Keywords juvenile sentencing; extreme punishment; Miller; Jones v. Mississippi; sentencing reform; United States

The association between delinquent peer affiliation and disruptive behavior interacts with functional brain correlates of reward sensitivity: A biosocial interaction study in adolescent delinquents

Keywords biosocial criminology; childhood arrestees; conduct disorder; delinquent peer affiliation; disruptive behavioral disorder; fMRI; reward sensitivity; ventral striatum; amygdala; mPFC; DISC; youth delinquents

Competence, Culpability, and Punishment: Implications of Atkins for Executing and Sentencing Adolescents

Keywords Supreme Court; blameworthiness; capital punishment; proportionality; death penalty; developmental impairments; older adolescents; Atkins v. Virginia; judgment; impulse control; psychological characteristics; developmental characteristics; reduced culpability; mitigating factors

Developmental trajectories of legal socialization among serious adolescent offenders

Keywords legal socialization; adolescence; juvenile offenders

How beliefs around peers’ risk preferences get incorporated into adolescents’ decision making

Keywords Risky decision making; peer influence; adolescence; peer preferences; prosocial behavior; risk attitudes; perspective-taking; computational model; expected utility; age-related changes

Social influence in adolescence: Behavioral and neural responses to peer and expert opinion

Keywords Adolescence; Normative influence; Informational influence; MEG; FRN

Expanding understanding of adolescent neural sensitivity to peers: Using social information processing theory to generate new lines of research.

Keywords Peer influence; FMRI; Adolescence; Individual differences; Behavior

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