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Unravelling Polygenic risk and Environmental Interactions in Adolescent Polysubstance Use: a US Population-Based Observational Study
Keywords Polysubstance use; polygenic scores; environmental factors; adolescents(2025)
Drug Addiction and Incarceration: A Call for Research and Transparency Among Prison-Based Substance Abuse Treatment programs
Keywords recidivism; drug addiction; CBT; contingency management; therapeutic communities; pharmacological treatment; twelve-step programs; abstinence; Prison-based substance use treatment programs(2025)
Recruitment of Neuronal Populations in the Paraventricular Thalamus of Alcohol-Seeking Rats With Withdrawal-Related Learning Experience
Keywords Alcohol; c-Fos-positive neurons; Learning; Negative reinforcement; Positive reinforcement; Reward dysregulation(2025)
Views and experiences of involuntary civil commitment of people who use drugs in Massachusetts (Section 35)
Keywords Involuntary Civil Commitment; Section 35; Opioid Use; Criminalization; Policy(2024)
The impact of civil commitment laws for substance use disorder on opioid overdose deaths
Keywords civil commitment; COVID-19 pandemic; opioid use disorder (OUD); substance usage disorders (SUDs); involuntary commitment(2024)
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(2024)
The second look movement: A review of the nation's sentence review laws
Keywords Mass incarceration; life sentences; mandatory minimums; deterrent effect on crime; ineffective parole system; judicial review; sentencing reconsideration; second look movement; Graham v. Florida; Miller v. Alabama; juvenile life without parole; JLWOP(2024)
"Children Are Different" and Their Lawyers Should Be Too
Keywords In re Gault; right to counsel; ineffective counsel; reforms to right to counsel(2024)
Amending New Jersey’s Expungement Law to Reflect the Historical Treatment of Juveniles: Juveniles Deserve a Second Chance
Keywords juvenile record; rehabilitation; collateral consequences; discretionary juvenile record expunction(2024)
Adolescents Engage in More Risky Decision Making
Keywords neuroscience; adolescence; neurobiological maturity; self-control; social influence(2024)
Large‐scale investigation of white matter structural differences in bilingual and monolingual children: An adolescent brain cognitive development data study
Keywords bilingualism; brain development; language network; white matter(2024)
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(2024)
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(2024)
The Case for Second Chances: A Pathway to Decarceration in Maine
Keywords mass incarceration; decarceration; parole; clemency; Maine Criminal Code(2024)
Juvenile Life Without Parole in Pennsylvania: Age, Cognitive Immaturity, and Culpability
Keywords juvenile life without parole; JLWOP; cognitive immaturity; legal culpability(2024)