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People v. L.M.
Keywords adolescents; waive rights; plead guilty; juvenile pleas; authority figures; juvenile rights(2025)
State v. Suarez
Keywords resentencing; Comer; juveniles; under 18; emerging adults; murder; robbery(2025)
Combined Effects of Social Exclusion and Social Rank Feedback on Risky Decision-Making Across Adolescence
Keywords Adolescence; risky decision-making; social exclusion; social rank; peer influence; information use; Columbia Card Task (CCT); Cyberball; mid-adolescence; social cognition(2025)
Risk-Taking Facilitates Implicit Learning in Young Adults
Keywords cognition; executive function; implicit learning; reward processing; risk-taking(2025)
Brief of Center for Law, Brain and Behavior as Amicus Curiae in Support of Appellees-Plaintiffs Joao Neves, Keith Nunes, Pablo Ortega, and Mario Monteiro
Keywords Mario's Law; parole statute; life-determinant sentences; neuroscientific evidence; Eighth Amendment; adolescent development; criminal justice system; juvenile offenders; brain development(2024)
Criteria and Procedures for Meaningful Parole Review for People Sentenced as Youth
Keywords Juvenile life without parole; JLWOP; Eighth Amendment jurisprudence; parole hearings; youth as a mitigating factor; post-crime maturity; rehabilitation(2024)
The second look movement: A review of the nation's sentence review laws
Keywords Mass incarceration; life sentences; mandatory minimums; deterrent effect on crime; ineffective parole system; judicial review; sentencing reconsideration; second look movement; Graham v. Florida; Miller v. Alabama; juvenile life without parole; JLWOP(2024)
"Children Are Different" and Their Lawyers Should Be Too
Keywords In re Gault; right to counsel; ineffective counsel; reforms to right to counsel(2024)
Amending New Jersey’s Expungement Law to Reflect the Historical Treatment of Juveniles: Juveniles Deserve a Second Chance
Keywords juvenile record; rehabilitation; collateral consequences; discretionary juvenile record expunction(2024)
Adolescents Engage in More Risky Decision Making
Keywords neuroscience; adolescence; neurobiological maturity; self-control; social influence(2024)
Large‐scale investigation of white matter structural differences in bilingual and monolingual children: An adolescent brain cognitive development data study
Keywords bilingualism; brain development; language network; white matter(2024)
Differential item functioning in reports of delinquent behavior between Black and White youth: Evidence of measurement bias in self-reports of arrest in the adolescent brain cognitive development study
Keywords Differential Item Functioning; measurement bias; delinquency; racial group differences; adolescent brain cognitive development study(2024)
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(2024)
The Case for Second Chances: A Pathway to Decarceration in Maine
Keywords mass incarceration; decarceration; parole; clemency; Maine Criminal Code(2024)
Juvenile Life Without Parole in Pennsylvania: Age, Cognitive Immaturity, and Culpability
Keywords juvenile life without parole; JLWOP; cognitive immaturity; legal culpability(2024)