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Should the Science of Adolescent Brain Development Inform Public Policy?
Keywords policy; neuroscience; juvenile justice; evidence-based policy
Using risk of crime detection to study change in mechanisms of decision making
Keywords Perception of risk; Deterrence; Rational choice; Developmental; Stability
Links between socioeconomic position and cognitive and behavioral regulation in adolescence: The role of pubertal development
Keywords Adolescence; Cognitive and behavioral regulation; Executive function; Puberty; Socioeconomic position
Friendship changes differentially predict neural correlates of decision-making for friends across adolescence
Keywords Adolescence; Amygdala; Friendships; Risk taking; FMRI
Racial discrimination and risk for internalizing and externalizing symptoms among Black youths
Keywords Racial Discrimination; Amygdala; Black Youth; Internalizing Symptoms; Externalizing Symptoms
Inequality in Youth Justice: A Call for Global Action
Keywords Youth Justice; Racial Disparities; Ethnic Minorities; Socioeconomic Status
Associations between externalizing behavior problems and risky sexual behaviors in adolescence: Attachment as a mediator
Keywords Adolescence; Attachment; Behavior problems; Parents; Peers; Risky sexual behaviors
Simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use and high-risk sexual behaviors
Keywords College students; High-risk sexual behaviors; simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use; Cannabis; Alcohol
The Life-Course of Juvenile Lifers: Understanding Maturation and Development as Miller and Its Progeny Guide Juvenile Life Sentence Release Decisions
Keywords Juvenile life without parole; prisoner maturation; reentry; life sentence; rehabilitation; second look sentencing.
Adverse childhood experiences, sexual risk-taking and non-consensual sexual experiences in a nationally representative study of 15–29-year-old Danes
Keywords Adverse childhood experiences; Low childhood socioeconomic position; Sexual risk-taking; Non-consensual sexual experiences; Epidemiology
The Myth of Youth: Rethinking the Negligence Standard of Care for Minors in the Age of Neuroscience
Keywords Negligence; legal standard of care; adolescence; brain development
Juvenile Offending Among Maltreated Youth: Assessing Type-Specificity and Offense Specialization in the Cycle of Violence
Keywords Child maltreatment; Child abuse, cycle of violence; Delinquency
In the wake of Miller and Montgomery: A national view of people sentenced to juvenile life without parole
Keywords Juvenile lifers; second chance policies; mass incarceration; resentencing; reentry; life-course criminology
A Second Chance at Success: Using “Second Look” Laws to Modify Sentences of Juvenile Offenders
Keywords Second look sentencing; resentencing ; rehabilitation; juvenile offenders; federal model; court factors; legal counsel for indigent clients
The role of adolescent anxious mood, marijuana use, and locus of control in the school to prison pipeline
Keywords Students; Urban education; School improvement