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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
Neuroscience and the Model Penal Code's Mens Rea Categories
Keywords Neurolaw; Neuroscience; Criminal Law; Model Penal Code; Brain Imaging; Behavioral Science; Psychology
A Meaningful Life: The Future of Juvenile Justice in Washington After Anderson
Keywords juvenile sentencing; de facto life sentence; Miller v. Alabama; Eighth Amendment; juvenile brain development; racial bias; Washington Supreme Court; Anderson; Miller factors; youthful offenders
Prevalence and determinants of risky behaviors: A comprehensive review of substance use and sexual risk behaviors among adolescents in the United States
Keywords Adolescents; Determinants; Prevalence; Substance Use; Sexual Risk Behaviors; United States
Neural Tracking of Perceived Parent, but Not Peer, Norms Is Associated with Longitudinal Changes in Adolescent Attitudes about Externalizing Behaviors
Keywords Externalizing Behaviors; Neuroimaging; Parent Norms; Peer Norms
Justice for Emerging Adults after Jones: the Rapidly Developing Use of Neuroscience to Extend Eighth Amendment Miller Protections to Defendants Ages 18 and Older
Keywords Juvenile justice; Young adults; Teenagers; Courts
Lonely Too Long: Redefining and Reforming Juvenile Solitary Confinement
Keywords Adolescents; Solitary confinement; Psychology; Brain development; Law
Clinical and Biological Correlates of Emotional Dysregulation in Children and Adolescents: A Transdiagnostic Approach to Developmental Psychopathology
Keywords Emotional Dysregulation; youth; adolescents; ADHD; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); mood disorders; self-harm; suicidality
Age-related changes in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex activation are associated with daily prosocial behaviors two years later
Keywords Prosocial behaviors; adolescent development; fMRI; neurodevelopment; ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC); precuneus; longitudinal study
Identifying Barriers to HIV and Substance Use Service Engagement for Young Adults Involved in the Criminal Legal System
Keywords Young Adults; HIV; Substance Use Disorder; Barriers to Care; Reentry; Jail; Harm Reduction
How beliefs around peers’ risk preferences get incorporated into adolescents’ decision making
Keywords Risky decision making; peer influence; adolescence; peer preferences; prosocial behavior; age-related changes
Development of the triadic neural systems involved in risky decision-making during childhood
Keywords Risky decision-making; childhood; adolescence; Triadic Neural Systems Model; fMRI; prefrontal cortex; striatum; functional connectivity; striatum; functional connectivity; neurocognitive development
Neuroscientific Paradigms and their Implications for Jurisprudential Practice: A Comparative Analysis
Keywords Neurolaw; Neuroscience; Legal Theory; Ethical Implications