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A Case for Changing the Age of Majority From 18 to 22 Years of Age in Massachusetts
Keywords Age of majority; Juvenile; Justice system; Neurological development; Recidivism; Rehabilitation; Massachusetts; Youthful offender
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
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
Mapping potential pathways from polygenic liability through brain structure to psychological problems across the transition to adolescence
Keywords Polygenic score; brain structure; general factor of psychopathology; externalizing
The relationship between cognitive and affective control and adolescent mental health
Keywords adolescence; affective control; cognitive control; depression; mental health
Capital sentencing and neuropsychiatry
Keywords aggravation; capital punishment; criminal sentencing; death penalty; ethics; forensic neuropsychiatry; intellectual disability; juvenile offenders; risk assessment; psychopathy; mitigation
Reprieves Return: Minnesota's Decision to Awaken the Reprieve
Keywords Reprieve; Pardon; Youthful Offender; commutation
Bio-behavioral scientific evidence alters judges' sentencing decision-making: A quantitative analysis
Keywords Sentencing; Decision-making; Punishment; Retribution; Behavior; Mental disorders
The effects of a defendant's childhood physical abuse on lay support for sentencing: The moderating role of essentialism
Keywords Childhood abuse; Sentencing; Social essentialism; Biological essentialism; Rehabilitation; Restoration
Mandatory Sentences as Strict Liability
Keywords Mandatory Sentences; Sentencing Disparity; Strict Liability Crimes; Mens Rea; Criminal Intent
Same Crime, Different Time: Sentencing Disparities in the Deep South & A Path Forward Under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Keywords Mass Incarceration; Racial Discrimination; Sentencing Disparities; State-Level Sentencing; Carceral State
Neuroscience and the insanity defense: Trying to put a round peg in a square hole.
Keywords Insanity defense; Neuroimaging; Legal responsibility; Legal capacity; Mental state
Justice Is Not a Game: The Devastating Racial Inequity of Washington’s Three Strikes Law
Keywords Three Strikes Laws; Racial Disparities in Justice; Criminal Justice Reform; Persistent Offender Accountability Act (POAA); Policy Analysis; Life without Parole