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A Meaningful Life: The Future of Juvenile Justice in Washington After Anderson

Keywords Juvenile sentencing; de facto life sentences; Miller v. Alabama; Eighth Amendment; juvenile brain development; racial bias; Washington Supreme Court; Anderson; Miller factors; youthful offenders

Motion of Forty Developmental Science Scholars and Nonprofits for Leave to File Amicus Brief in Support of Appellants; Brief of Amici Curiae

Keywords People v. Parks; Michigan Constitution; mandatory life without parole; mandatory LWOP; late adolescence; mitigating characteristics of youth; Miller v. Alabama; Roper v. Simmons; developmental neuroscience; Graham v. Florida; Montgomery v. Louisiana

Ten is Too Young: South Dakota's Need for a Legislative Amendment Raising the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility to Fourteen

Keywords Juvenile Justice; Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility; Child Development; South Dakota Law; Juvenile Court; Parens Patriae; Child Cognitive Development; Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs); Developmental Neuroscience; Community-Based Services

Neuroscience and the Criminal Legal System: A Humanitarian Application Framework

Keywords neuroscience; mass incarceration; free will; retribution; recidivism; neurolaw; humanitarian application framework; neurorights

Justice Is Not a Game: The Devastating Racial Inequity of Washington’s Three Strikes Law

Keywords Three Strikes Laws; Racial Disparities in Justice; Criminal Justice Reform; Persistent Offender Accountability Act (POAA); Policy Analysis; Life without Parole

Neuroscience and the insanity defense: Trying to put a round peg in a square hole.

Keywords Insanity defense; Neuroimaging; Legal responsibility; Legal capacity; Mental state

Same Crime, Different Time: Sentencing Disparities in the Deep South & A Path Forward Under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Keywords Mass Incarceration; Racial Discrimination; Sentencing Disparities; State-Level Sentencing; Carceral State

Mandatory Sentences as Strict Liability

Keywords Mandatory Sentences; Sentencing Disparity; Strict Liability Crimes; Mens Rea; Criminal Intent

The effects of a defendant's childhood physical abuse on lay support for sentencing: The moderating role of essentialism

Keywords Childhood abuse; Sentencing; Social essentialism; Biological essentialism; Rehabilitation; Restoration

The Influence of Substance Use on Adolescent Brain Development

Keywords Adolescence; Alcohol; Marijuana; Use; fMRI; Hangover; Withdrawal; alcoholism; functional magnetic resonance imaging; diffusion tensor imaging

The Myth of Youth: Rethinking the Negligence Standard of Care for Minors in the Age of Neuroscience

Keywords Negligence; legal standard of care; adolescence; brain development

State v. Bunch

Keywords juvenile justice; LWOP; post-conviction relief; eyewitness testimony; juvenile life without parole

Criteria and Procedures for Meaningful Parole Review for People Sentenced as Youth

Keywords Juvenile life without parole; JLWOP; Eighth Amendment jurisprudence; parole hearings; youth as a mitigating factor; post-crime maturity; rehabilitation

Capital sentencing and neuropsychiatry

Keywords aggravation; capital punishment; criminal sentencing; death penalty; ethics; forensic neuropsychiatry; intellectual disability; juvenile offenders; risk assessment; psychopathy; mitigation

Neuroendocrine mechanisms in the links between early life stress, affect, and youth substance use: A conceptual model for the study of sex and gender differences

Keywords adolescence; HPA; HPG; mood; substance use; stress; adversity; sex differences; gender differences; early life stress

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