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Developmental trajectories of legal socialization among serious adolescent offenders
Keywords legal socialization; adolescence; juvenile offenders(2005)
Cognitive and Affective Development in Adolescence
Keywords Teenagers ; Grow ; Develop ; Scientists ; Adolescent behavior ; Brain development ; Vulnerability ; Changes ; Reorganization ; Well-being(2005)
The Enduring Effects of Abuse and Related Adverse Experiences in Childhood: a Convergence of Evidence from Neurobiology and Epidemiology
Keywords Child development; Adults; stress; mental health; physical health; drug use; domestic violence; neurobiology; childhood abuse; substance(2005)
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(2003)
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(2001)
Emerging Adulthood. a Theory of Development from the Late Teens Through the Twenties
Keywords Emerging adulthood; late childhood; early adulthood; development; self-discovery; culture(2000)
Minor Physical Anomalies and Family Adversity as Risk Factors for Violent Delinquency in Adolescence
Keywords Birth defects; fetal development; behavioral problems; psychiatric disorders; delinquency; family adversity; socioeconomic status; longitudinal study(2000)
A Review of Arguments for Raising the Age of Criminal Responsibility
Keywords Age of criminal responsibility; Content analysis; MACR; Youth justice
The developmental timing but not magnitude of adolescent risk-taking propensity is consistent across social, environmental, and psychological factors
Keywords Adolescence; Risk-taking; National survey; Generalizability; Reproducibility; sensation seeking; substance use
Distorted Burden Shifting & Barred Mitigation: Being a Stubborn 234 Years Old Ironically Hasn’t Helped the Supreme Court Mature
Keywords Capital Punishment; Adverse Childhood Experiences; Mitigation; Health Law; Criminal Procedure; Criminal Law; Biopsychosocial Development; United States Supreme Court
Ten is Too Young: South Dakota's Need for a Legislative Amendment Raising the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility to Fourteen
Keywords Criminal Responsibility; Juvenile Justice; Juvenile Justice Reform; ACEs; South Dakota
The role of parent–child interactions in the association between mental health and prosocial behavior: Evidence from early childhood to late adolescence
Keywords Mental health problems; Prosocial behavior; Childhood, adolescence; Millennium Cohort Study; Trait-state-occasion modeling
Relations between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Substance Use in Adolescents and Emerging Adults: The Moderating Role of Exposure to Community Violence and Community Support and Community Recognition
Keywords Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs); Community Violence Exposure; Black youth; Community Support; Substance Use
Childhood maltreatment influences adult brain structure through its effects on immune, metabolic, and psychosocial factors
Keywords childhood maltreatment; metabolic ; inflammation; gray matter; MRI
Young people's experiences and use of violence in the home: Examining four types of child maltreatment, their intersections and self-reported use of violence in the home
Keywords Child maltreatment; Child abuse; Child harm; Domestic violence; Child victim; Child sexual abuse