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Capital sentencing and neuropsychiatry
Keywords aggravation; capital punishment; criminal sentencing; death penalty; ethics; forensic neuropsychiatry; intellectual disability; juvenile offenders; risk assessment; psychopathy; mitigation
Reprieves Return: Minnesota's Decision to Awaken the Reprieve
Keywords Reprieve; Pardon; Youthful Offender; commutation
Bio-behavioral scientific evidence alters judges' sentencing decision-making: A quantitative analysis
Keywords Sentencing; Decision-making; Punishment; Retribution; Behavior; Mental disorders
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
Mandatory Sentences as Strict Liability
Keywords Mandatory Sentences; Sentencing Disparity; Strict Liability Crimes; Mens Rea; Criminal Intent
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
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
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 Model Penal Code's Mens Rea Categories
Keywords Neurolaw; Neuroscience; Criminal Law; Model Penal Code; Brain Imaging; Behavioral Science; Psychology
A Meaningful Life: The Future of Juvenile Justice in Washington After Anderson
Keywords juvenile sentencing; de facto life sentence; Miller v. Alabama; Eighth Amendment; juvenile brain development; racial bias; Washington Supreme Court; Anderson; Miller factors; youthful offenders
Prevalence and determinants of risky behaviors: A comprehensive review of substance use and sexual risk behaviors among adolescents in the United States
Keywords Adolescents; Determinants; Prevalence; Substance Use; Sexual Risk Behaviors; United States
Neural Tracking of Perceived Parent, but Not Peer, Norms Is Associated with Longitudinal Changes in Adolescent Attitudes about Externalizing Behaviors
Keywords Externalizing Behaviors; Neuroimaging; Parent Norms; Peer Norms
Clinical and Biological Correlates of Emotional Dysregulation in Children and Adolescents: A Transdiagnostic Approach to Developmental Psychopathology
Keywords Emotional Dysregulation; youth; adolescents; ADHD; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); mood disorders; self-harm; suicidality
Age-related changes in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex activation are associated with daily prosocial behaviors two years later
Keywords Prosocial behaviors; adolescent development; fMRI; neurodevelopment; ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC); precuneus; longitudinal study
Nonviolent Drug Offenders Need Treatment--Not Prison: The Solution to Prison Overcrowding in West Virginia
Keywords Drug courts; prison overcrowding; opioid epidemic; incarceration rates; West Virginia; recidivism; addiction; rehabilitation