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“Kids are Kids”: Benevolent Ignorance and the Omission of Race in Developmental Justice Reform
Keywords Ignorance; Juvenile justice; Brain immaturity; Neurolaw; Law and science; Child savers
Anxiety may alter the role of fronto-striatal circuitry in adolescent risky decision-making
Keywords Anxiety; Adolescence; Striatum; fMRI; Risk-taking; Avoidance
The end of “permanently incorrigible”: Putting Jones v. Mississippi into context
Keywords Jones v. Mississippi; life without parole; LWOP; juvenile sentencing; developmental psychology; rehabilitation; permanent incorrigibility
Mapping racial/ethnic disparities in youth psychiatric emergencies and associations with neighborhood racial composition, child opportunity, and inequality
Keywords Psychiatric emergencies; Racial/ethnic disparities; Mobile crisis response; Neighborhood opportunity; Opportunity inequality
Identification of a composite latent dimension of reward and impulsivity across clinical, behavioral and neurobiological domains among youth
Keywords Reward; Impulsivity; Multivariate Pattern Learning; Development; fMRI; ADHD
Analysis of Substance Use and Mental Disorder Diagnoses in Adolescents with a History of Delinquency: A Cross-sectional Study
Keywords Delinquent Adolescents; Substance Use; Mental Disorders; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
A comparative network analysis of the criminogenic needs of male emerging adult first-time offenders, repeated offenders, and university students
Keywords Criminal behaviors; Reconviction; Criminogenic needs; Incarcerated emerging adults; Network analysis
Life after life: Recidivism among individuals formerly sentenced to mandatory juvenile life without parole
Keywords Adolescence; Culpability; Development; Juveniles; Legal policy; Juvenile life without parole
Rethinking peer influence and risk taking: A strengths-based approach to adolescence in a new era
Keywords Adolescent relationships; Externalizing; Internalizing; Peer influence; Risk taking
Inequities in Mental Health Services: A 16-Year Longitudinal Study of Youth in the Justice System
Keywords Health inequities; Health disparities; Juvenile justice; Criminal justice; Mental health services
Fourteen to life: Giving constitutional effect to the age-based presumption of diminished moral blameworthiness by respecting Parliament’s two-pronged test for adult sentence applications pursuant to section 72 of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
Keywords Youth Criminal Justice; Adult Sentencing; Legal Theory; Diminished Moral Blameworthiness
Longitudinal tracking of alcohol expectancies and their associations with impulsivity in alcohol naïve youth in the adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) study
Keywords Positive alcohol expectancies; Negative alcohol expectancies; Self-reported impulsivity; Behavioral impulsivity; ABCD study; Alcohol-naïve youth
Adverse Impacts of Mental Health Needs Assessment on Jail Outcomes: Evidence from Transition Age Youth and Adults
Keywords Mental Health Needs Scores; Youth Outcomes; Recidivism; Jail Mental Health; Transition age youth
Evolution, the Cognitive Sciences, and the Science of Victimization
Keywords Adolescent victimization; Self-control; Intelligence; Disadvantaged youth
Adolescent risk-taking likelihood, risk perceptions, and benefit perceptions across domains
Keywords Adolescence; Risk taking; Domains; Risk perception; Risk-return; Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder