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A Review of Arguments for Raising the Age of Criminal Responsibility

Keywords Age of criminal responsibility; Content analysis; MACR; Queensland policy; Youth justice

A Case for Changing the Age of Majority From 18 to 22 Years of Age in Massachusetts

Keywords Age of majority; Juvenile; Justice system; Neurological development; Recidivism; Rehabilitation; Massachusetts; Youthful offender

Examining Associations Between Genetic and Neural Risk for Externalizing Behaviors in Adolescence and Early Adulthood

Keywords Externalizing; neurophysiology; polygenic score; P3 amplitude

Suicidality, Bullying and Other Conduct and Mental Health Correlates of Traumatic Brain Injury in Adolescents

Keywords TBI; adolescent; suicide; bullying; conduct; mental health; brain injury

In the Interest of C.K.

Keywords Megan's Law; juvenile sentencing; sex offense; substantive due process; lifetime registration and notification; cruel and unusual punishment; public safety

State v Lyle

Keywords juvenile offenders; mandatory minimum sentencing; cruel and unusual punishment; Eighth Amendment; individualized sentencing

State v. R.G.D.

Keywords juvenile sentencing; aggravating factors; mitigating factors; individualized sentencing

State v. Pratt

Keywords juvenile sentencing; murder; diminished culpability of children; waiver to adult court

Abdul-Kabir v. Quarterman

Keywords death penalty; sentencing; mitigating factors of youth; Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act

Johnson v. Texas

Keywords juvenile sentencing; future dangerousness; mitigating factors of youth

Developmental trajectories of legal socialization among serious adolescent offenders

Keywords legal socialization; adolescence; juvenile offenders

“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

Detecting Mens Rea in the Brain

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

Neuroscience and the Model Penal Code's Mens Rea Categories

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

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

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