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Rational Choice and Developmental Influences on Recidivism Among Adolescent Felony Offenders
Keywords Teen crime; developmental limitations; risk evaluation; severity of punishment; procedural justice; mental health(2007)
Development of the Adolescent Brain: Implications for Executive Function and Social Cognition
Keywords Brain scans ; Teenagers ; Decision making ; Social policy ; Education(2006)
Earlier Development of the Accumbens Relative to Orbitofrontal Cortex Might Underlie Risk-Taking Behavior in Adolescents
Keywords accumbens; adolescent; reward; development; orbital frontal cortex; risk-taking(2006)
Developmental Incompetence, Due Process, and Juvenile Justice Policy
Keywords Juvenile justice system; legal reform; competency to stand trial; due process(2005)
Developmental trajectories of legal socialization among serious adolescent offenders
Keywords legal socialization; adolescence; juvenile offenders(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)
Cognitive and Affective Development in Adolescence
Keywords Teenagers ; Grow ; Develop ; Scientists ; Adolescent behavior ; Brain development ; Vulnerability ; Changes ; Reorganization ; Well-being(2005)
Seeing Black: Race, Crime, and Visual Processing
Keywords Decision-making; behavior; race; sex; justice(2004)
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