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Three decades of research in substance use disorder treatment for syringe services program participants: a scoping review of the literature

Keywords syringe services program; referral to treatment; people who inject drugs

Juvenile Life Without Parole in Pennsylvania: Age, Cognitive Immaturity, and Culpability

Keywords juvenile life without parole; JLWOP; cognitive immaturity; legal culpability

The Case for Second Chances: A Pathway to Decarceration in Maine

Keywords mass incarceration; decarceration; parole; clemency; Maine Criminal Code

Adolescent Development and the Regulation of Youth Crime

Keywords Young adult offenders; juvenile justice system; rehabilitation; developmental differences; immaturity; juvenile death penalty; fairness; social welfare

Criminal decision making: The development of adolescent judgment, criminal responsibility, and culpability

Keywords psychosocial factors; temporal perspective; peer influence; risk perception; adolescent criminal decision-making

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

The perceptions of juvenile judges regarding adolescent development in evaluating juvenile competency

Keywords psychosocial factors; juvenile competency; adjudicative competency; adolescent development

Developmental Incompetence, Due Process, and Juvenile Justice Policy

Keywords Juvenile justice system; legal reform; competency to stand trial; due process

“Some Mother's Child Has Gone Astray”: Neuroscientific Approaches to a Therapeutic Jurisprudence Model of Juvenile Sentencing

Keywords adolescent brain development; therapeutic jurisprudence; retribution; rehabilitation

Adolescent Decision Making: Reduced Culpability in the Criminal Justice System and Recognition of Capability in Other Legal Contexts

Keywords cognitive control; adolescence; fMRI; socioeconomic status; parental monitoring; parental warmth; latent growth modeling

Aligning Justice System Processing with Developmental Science

Keywords emerging adulthood; human and social costs of incarceration

Prefrontal cortex structural and developmental associations with callous-unemotional traits and aggression

Keywords Callous-unemotional (CU) traits; aggression; antisocial behavior; prefrontal cortex; grey matter; neurodevelopment; cortical maturation

Differential item functioning in reports of delinquent behavior between Black and White youth: Evidence of measurement bias in self-reports of arrest in the adolescent brain cognitive development study

Keywords Differential Item Functioning; measurement bias; delinquency; racial group differences; adolescent brain cognitive development study

Shrinking the Footprint of the Criminal Legal System Through Policies Informed by Psychology and Neuroscience

Keywords legal system (U.S.); criminal behavior; neuroscience; policy change; solitary confinement; legal definition of insanity
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