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Justice for Emerging Adults after Jones: the Rapidly Developing Use of Neuroscience to Extend Eighth Amendment Miller Protections to Defendants Ages 18 and Older
This article examines how neuroscience is used to argue against the death penalty and mandatory life without parole for emerging adults (ages 18 to early 20s).
Lonely Too Long: Redefining and Reforming Juvenile Solitary Confinement
Kalief Browder's story highlights the devastating impact of solitary confinement, especially on young individuals.
Should the Science of Adolescent Brain Development Inform Public Policy?
Adolescence brings significant brain changes impacting structure and function, continuing longer than previously thought. These changes affect self-control, emotional regulation, and how the brain responds to rewards.
The Vicious Cycle: Problematic Family Relations, Substance Abuse, and Crime in Adolescence: A Narrative Review
Adolescence is a time of high vulnerability where many physical, behavioral, and cognitive changes occur, often leading to risky behaviors. These actions can be influenced by individual, family, and environmental factors.
Expanding understanding of adolescent neural sensitivity to peers: Using social information processing theory to generate new lines of research.
Adolescents are highly susceptible to peer influence, which impacts their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and brain function. This vulnerability is linked to brain changes that make them especially sensitive to peer input.
International Conformity to the Standard Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility: Comparing the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility to the Minimum Legal Age of Marriage
Many countries prosecute and imprison children as young as seven, despite international standards setting the minimum age of criminal responsibility at 14. This practice harms children and contradicts global efforts to protect them.
Social influence in adolescence: Behavioral and neural responses to peer and expert opinion
Adolescents are highly influenced by their peers, but also respond to advice from adults. Studies show adolescents may prioritize adult advice in some decisions, challenging the idea that peer influence always outweighs other sources.
Substance use-related alterations of social decision-making in a longitudinal cohort of young adults
Problematic substance use is linked to social issues like job loss and disrupted relationships. This study explored whether social decision-making impairments cause or result from substance use in young adults.
The role of sibling aggression during childhood in decision-making during adulthood
Adverse childhood experiences, including sibling aggression, can significantly affect brain development and decision-making abilities.
Adverse childhood experiences and externalizing, internalizing, and prosocial behaviors in children and adolescents: A longitudinal study
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) profoundly impact children's long-term health and well-being. Exposure to multiple ACEs increases the likelihood of emotional and behavioral problems, with some differences observed between genders.
Longitudinal Associations Between Support and Prosocial Behavior Across Adolescence: The Roles of Fathers, Mothers, Siblings, and Friends
Adolescents learn prosocial behaviors by observing family and friends. Supportive relationships also encourage them to help others.
Trajectories of parental warmth and the role they play in explaining adolescent prosocial behavior
The study found that parental warmth during childhood and adolescence is linked to more prosocial behavior in adolescents. Different patterns of warmth through development may influence an adolescent's willingness to help others.
Introduction: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, youth justice and the law
This special issue examines how unrecognized ADHD in youth contributes to high rates of incarceration and repeat offenses. It aims to inform practitioners and policymakers about ADHD and offer solutions for the justice system.
In conversation: An inside perspective of youth justice practice and experience
This dialogue explores the challenges and strengths experienced by previously incarcerated children who become adult practitioners in the youth justice system.
Who is at risk? Applying the biopsychosocial model to explain non-violent and violent delinquency in youth
This study uses a biopsychosocial model to understand how biological, psychological, and social factors influence non-violent and violent delinquency in at-risk youth.