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Brain Science and the Theory of Juvenile Mens Rea

Keywords juvenile justice; Eighth Amendment; Fourth Amendment; Miranda v. Arizona; Roper v. Simmons; Graham v. Florida; Miller v. Alabama; J.D.B. v. North Carolina; mens rea

Stability and cross-lagged relations among callous-unemotional traits, moral identity, moral emotion attribution and externalizing behavior problems in adolescents

Keywords Callous-unemotional traits (CU-traits); Adolescence; Moral identity; Moral emotion attribution; Externalizing behavior problems; Longitudinal study; Cross-lagged model; Predictive links; Behavioral stability; Psychopathy traits; Moral development; Conduct disorders; Antisocial behavior

The neurobiological effects of childhood maltreatment on brain structure, function, and attachment

Keywords Childhood maltreatment; Psychopathology; Brain development; Early childhood; Adolescence; Neurobiological effects; Sensory systems; Phenotypic alterations; Brain structure; Epigenetics

Prospective associations of family conflict with alcohol expectancies in the adolescent brain cognitive development study: Effects of race and ethnicity

Keywords Alcohol expectancies; Adolescents; Cognitive Development; Youth substance use; Sociocultural factors; Mixed-effects regression; Black; White

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

Alexithymia as a mediator of the associations between child maltreatment and internalizing and externalizing behaviors in adolescence

Keywords child maltreatment; adolescence; alexithymia; internalizing behaviors; externalizing behaviors; mediation; gender differences; sexual abuse; emotional abuse; intimate partner violence; IPV; exposure to IPV

A Review of Arguments for Raising the Age of Criminal Responsibility

Keywords Age of criminal responsibility; Content analysis; MACR; Youth justice

Bio-behavioral scientific evidence alters judges' sentencing decision-making: A quantitative analysis

Keywords Sentencing; Decision-making; Punishment; Retribution; Behavior; Mental disorders

Girls in Juvenile Justice

Keywords Juvenile justice; Female offenders; Interpersonal violence; Gender-responsive programming; School-to-prison pipeline; Disproportionate minority contact (DMC); Racial and ethnic disparities (RED); Diversion; Decarceration; Intersectionality; Trauma-informed practice

A Cross-Clinic Collaboration: How an Amicus Brief Helped Create Judicial Recognition of Adultification Bias in Juvenile Sentencing

Keywords adultification bias; race; civil rights; sentencing disparities; legal standards

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

Suicidality, Bullying and Other Conduct and Mental Health Correlates of Traumatic Brain Injury in Adolescents

Keywords TBI; adolescent; suicide; bullying; conduct; mental health; brain injury

“Some Mother's Child Has Gone Astray”: Neuroscientific Approaches to a Therapeutic Jurisprudence Model of Juvenile Sentencing

Keywords adolescent brain development; therapeutic jurisprudence; retribution; rehabilitation

Adolescent Decision Making: Reduced Culpability in the Criminal Justice System and Recognition of Capability in Other Legal Contexts

Keywords cognitive control; adolescence; fMRI; socioeconomic status; parental monitoring; parental warmth; latent growth modeling

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

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