Resource Library
Aligning Justice System Processing with Developmental Science
Keywords emerging adulthood; human and social costs of incarceration(2012)
Considerations for Imaging the Adolescent Brain
Keywords Brain scans ; Brain development ; Teenage years ; Insights ; Behavior ; Factors ; Puberty ; Sleep patterns ; Pregnancy; Developmental neuroscience; Adolescent brain development; MRI(2012)
Development of the Social Brain in Adolescence
Keywords Brain development; Brain scans; Children; Adults; Theory of mind(2012)
Risk Taking and the Adolescent Reward System: a Potential Common Link to Substance Abuse
Keywords Risk-taking; drug use; gambling task; brain development; behavior; young adults; MRI; gray matter; ventral striatum(2012)
Paula E v. State of Alaska, Department of Health and Social Services
Keywords substance use; termination of parental rights; domestic violence; visitation rights; Alaskan Supreme Court; removal from parents(2012)
Romero v. State
Keywords LWOP sentence; second-degree murder; Graham v. Florida; juveniles; non-homicide cases; murder conviction; emerging adults(2012)
Conley v. State
Keywords juvenile offender; juvenile life without parole; JLWOP; Miller v. Alabama; aggravating circumstances; mitigating circumstances(2012)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center on Behalf of Appellant
Keywords Miller; mandatory LWOP; mandatory life without parole; murder; Graham; intent to kill; felony murder; juvenile culpability; juvenile blameworthiness(2012)
Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center et al. in Support of Appellees and Urging Affirmance
Keywords Fourth Amendment (U.S.); strip searches; Special Needs Test; juveniles; adolescents; suspicionless strip searches; probable cause; minors; children; teenagers; reasonable suspicion; individualized suspicion; adolescent vulnerability; adolescent development; trauma; Body ID policy; intrusive searches(2012)
Brief on Behalf of Defendant-Appellant
Keywords first degree murder; mandatory sentencing; individualized sentencing; Miller; Graham; meaningful opportunity for release(2012)
Brief of Jeffrey Fagan, Deborah Baskin, Frank R. Baumgartner, Katherine Beckett, Donna Bishop, Alfred Blumstein, and Robert Brame et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners
Keywords deterrence; super predator myth; juvenile; LWOP; life without parole; juvenile offenders; violent crime(2012)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners
Keywords juvenile LWOP; juvenile life without parole; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); proportionality analysis; felony murder; decision-making; adolescent vulnerability; peer pressure; reduced culpability; cruel and unusual punishment; adolescent development; characteristics of youth; developmental differences(2012)
Supplemental Brief for Amicus Curiae the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association in Support of Appellee the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Keywords LWOP; retroactive relief; resentencing; Miller; first-degree murder(2012)
Brief of NAACP et al. in Support of Petitioners
Keywords Eighth Amendment (U.S.); culpability evaluation; race; juvenile; youth; juvenile LWOP; juvenile life without parole; African American; Latino; "wilding"; superpredators(2012)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center and the National Juvenile Defender Center as Amici Curiae in Support of Petition for a Writ of Certiorari
Keywords non-homicide; LWOP; Eighth Amendment; disproportionate sentence; Graham; age; disability; mitigating circumstances(2012)