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The Slow Drip of Decarceration: Reversing the Flood of Mass Incarceration and Its Racist Impact
Keywords racial disparities; mass incarceration; decarceration; rehabilitation; clemency; release; post-conviction relief(2024)
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(2024)
Shrinking the Footprint of the Criminal Legal System Through Policies Informed by Psychology and Neuroscience
Keywords legal system (U.S.); criminal behavior; neuroscience; policy change; solitary confinement; legal definition of insanity(2024)
A Path Toward Race-Conscious Standards for Youth: Translating Adultification Bias Theory into Doctrinal Interventions in Criminal Court
Keywords adultification bias; disproportionate sentencing; racism; racial bias; doctrinal intervention(2024)
Degradation or Redemption? A Parole Board Polices a Moral Boundary
Keywords Parole board; moral significance; criminal record; incarceration(2024)
Amending New Jersey’s Expungement Law to Reflect the Historical Treatment of Juveniles: Juveniles Deserve a Second Chance
Keywords juvenile delinquency; rehabilitation; human and social costs of incarceration; expungement; juvenile expungement; New Jersey expungement statute(2024)
Associations Between Age, Social Reward Processing and Social Anxiety Symptoms
Keywords adolescence; social reward; social anxiety; reward sensitivity; reward processing; social processing; motivational processing(2023)
Daring and Distress: Insights on Adolescent Risk Taking and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation from a Network Analysis Perspective
Keywords risk-taking behavior; self-harm; emotion regulation difficulties; personality; attachment styles; maladaptive psychological functioning; adolescent behavior; network analysis(2023)
Risk-Taking Behavior of Adolescents and Young Adults Born Preterm
Keywords premature birth; adolescent behavior; Chlamydia trachomatis; payment default; criminal offending; teenage pregnancy; substance use; register study(2023)
Fletcher v. Alaska
Keywords Juvenile sentencing; Eighth Amendment; Proportionality principle; juvenile justice reform; cruel and unusual punishment(2023)
Application for Leave to File Amici Curiae Brief and Proposed Brief of Amici Curiae ACLU, ACLU of Northern California, et al., in Support of Petitioner Tony Hardin
Keywords youthful offender; race; mass incarceration; racial disparity; overincarceration; super predator myth; black youth; people of color; excessive sentences; death sentence; LWOP; felony murder; de facto life sentence; parole eligibility; strict scrutiny; Equal Protection; suspect classification; first degree murder(2023)
Application to File Amici Curiae Brief and [Proposed] Brief of Amici Curiae for the Santa Clara County Independent Defense Counsel Office (“IDO”) in Support of Defendant and Petitioner Tony Hardin
Keywords adoelscent brain; brain development;; equal protection; racial disparities; behavior; socioeconomic disparities; diminished culpability; youth parole; youthful offender; LWOP; life without the possibility of parole; youthful offender parole; first degree murder(2023)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center and RISE for Youth
Keywords youth interrogation; access to counsel; Fifth Amendment (U.S.); law enforcement in schools; racial disparities; Black youth; confessions(2023)
Wisconsin Innocence Project Amicus Brief
Keywords age; police interrogations; Miranda custody analysis; confessions; developmental deficiencies; involuntary statements; maximization; minimization(2023)
Retired Massachusetts Judges Brief et al. in Support of Appellants
Keywords late adolescence; late adolescents; Miller; Diatchenko; permanent incorrigibility; Miller hearings; inconsistent sentencing(2023)