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Development of the triadic neural systems involved in risky decision-making during childhood
Risky decision-making increases from childhood, peaks in adolescence, and declines into adulthood. While neural underpinnings are known for adolescents and adults, how these systems work in children remains largely unknown.
Using risk of crime detection to study change in mechanisms of decision making
Research indicates that the perceived risk of getting caught for a crime impacts whether someone commits that crime. However, there is less evidence that the perceived risk directly correlates with the actual objective risk of detection.
Friendship changes differentially predict neural correlates of decision-making for friends across adolescence
Adolescence involves increased risk-taking for peers amid a changing social world. Friendship changes may impact adaptive risk-taking for friends and brain activity related to reward processing.
Racial discrimination and risk for internalizing and externalizing symptoms among Black youths
Racial discrimination impacts Black youth's mental health, increasing internalizing and externalizing symptoms. A youth's amygdala response to threats can moderate this association.
Associations between externalizing behavior problems and risky sexual behaviors in adolescence: Attachment as a mediator
Adolescence is a time of increased risk for health issues and new relationships. Some adolescents engage in risky sexual behaviors, like early sex or not using condoms, which can lead to health problems.
The Life-Course of Juvenile Lifers: Understanding Maturation and Development as Miller and Its Progeny Guide Juvenile Life Sentence Release Decisions
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that most juveniles sentenced to life in prison can mature and change. These individuals should have a chance to show they have reformed and earn release.
In the wake of Miller and Montgomery: A national view of people sentenced to juvenile life without parole
The U.S. has a high incarceration rate, driven by long sentences. Many people serving life sentences committed their crimes as juveniles. These sentences are often unnecessary for public safety and costly.
Susceptibility to peer influence in adolescents: Associations between psychophysiology and behavior
Adolescents are more susceptible to peer influence, which can be direct, indirect, or continuing. This influence impacts both antisocial and prosocial behaviors. The study examines how these types of influence affect different behaviors.
State v. Anderson
The Washington Supreme Court affirmed a 61-year sentence for a 17-year-old's deadly robbery. The majority found the sentence did not violate the state constitution's cruel punishment ban, as the crime lacked youthful immaturity.
Competencies for Training Juvenile Services on Justice Involved Youth with Traumatic Brain Injury
Youth in juvenile correction facilities have high rates of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Staff training is crucial for identifying TBI, improving outcomes, and ensuring youth receive necessary care, but current training is often inadequate.
Justice for Emerging Adults after Jones: the Rapidly Developing Use of Neuroscience to Extend Eighth Amendment Miller Protections to Defendants Ages 18 and Older
This article examines how neuroscience is used to argue against the death penalty and mandatory life without parole for emerging adults (ages 18 to early 20s).
Lonely Too Long: Redefining and Reforming Juvenile Solitary Confinement
Kalief Browder's story highlights the devastating impact of solitary confinement, especially on young individuals.
Should the Science of Adolescent Brain Development Inform Public Policy?
Adolescence brings significant brain changes impacting structure and function, continuing longer than previously thought. These changes affect self-control, emotional regulation, and how the brain responds to rewards.
Expanding understanding of adolescent neural sensitivity to peers: Using social information processing theory to generate new lines of research.
Adolescents are highly susceptible to peer influence, which impacts their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and brain function. This vulnerability is linked to brain changes that make them especially sensitive to peer input.
International Conformity to the Standard Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility: Comparing the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility to the Minimum Legal Age of Marriage
Many countries prosecute and imprison children as young as seven, despite international standards setting the minimum age of criminal responsibility at 14. This practice harms children and contradicts global efforts to protect them.