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From Suspension to Mass Incarceration: Punishment of Students with Special Needs and the School-To-Prison Pipeline.
Zero-tolerance drug policies led to school disciplinary actions that disproportionately affect children of color and those with disabilities. These policies funnel students out of schools and into the juvenile justice system.
Responding to the Trauma That Is Endemic to the Criminal Legal System: Many Opportunities for Juvenile Prevention, Intervention, and Rehabilitation.
Trauma significantly increases criminal offending risk, particularly for youth. Over 90% of justice-involved youth have trauma histories, highlighting the need for systemic, trauma-informed care.
Decoding Adolescent Decision Making: Neurocognitive Processes, Risk Perception, and the Influence of Peers
Adolescent risk-taking is linked to uneven brain development. Reward-seeking systems mature faster than impulse control, leading to a focus on immediate gratification over long-term consequences, especially with peers present.
The relationship between mental health and risky decision-making in children and adolescents: A scoping review
This review explores the connection between risky decision-making, measured by gambling tasks, and mental health symptoms in children and adolescents. It aims to clarify how internalizing and externalizing problems relate to risky choices.
Links between socioeconomic position and cognitive and behavioral regulation in adolescence: The role of pubertal development
Adolescent cognitive and behavioral regulation, influenced by socioeconomic position and puberty, is a key predictor of adult success. The study explores how these factors interact over time.
Neural Tracking of Perceived Parent, but Not Peer, Norms Is Associated with Longitudinal Changes in Adolescent Attitudes about Externalizing Behaviors
Adolescents' perceptions of parental and peer attitudes influence their own attitudes and future health behaviors. Brain regions involved in self and other representation play a role in this social influence.
Inequality in Youth Justice: A Call for Global Action
Children from minority groups, those with disabilities, or low socioeconomic status are overrepresented in youth justice systems globally. This overrepresentation is fueled by inequalities in law enforcement and judicial decision-making.
Simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use and high-risk sexual behaviors
College students frequently engage in high-risk sexual behaviors and substance use, but research on simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use with these behaviors is limited and shows unclear results.
Adverse childhood experiences, sexual risk-taking and non-consensual sexual experiences in a nationally representative study of 15–29-year-old Danes
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are linked to higher rates of risky sexual behaviors and non-consensual sexual encounters among young adults. Understanding this connection can help create better prevention programs.
Prevalence and determinants of risky behaviors: A comprehensive review of substance use and sexual risk behaviors among adolescents in the United States
This article systematically reviews current research on the prevalence of substance use and risky sexual behaviors among U.S. adolescents. It also identifies factors associated with these behaviors to inform prevention strategies.
“Kids are Kids”: Benevolent Ignorance and the Omission of Race in Developmental Justice Reform
The article finds that the "discourse of immaturity," which uses scientific evidence of adolescent brain development to argue for more lenient treatment of juvenile offenders, is problematic because it ignores how racism impacts the
Neuroscientific Paradigms and their Implications for Jurisprudential Practice: A Comparative Analysis
Neuroscience is changing legal ideas about human behavior, guilt, and justice. This new field, called neurolaw, is making courts re-evaluate how they assess criminal responsibility and punishment globally.
The Hollow Canon of Transnational Constitutional Engagement
Judicial use of foreign law in constitutional interpretation, once seen as a new era, has significantly diminished globally. Initial hopes for doctrinal transformation from transnational engagement have not been realized.
The Restatement of Law on Juveniles' Adjudicative Competence and Rights in Interrogation
The Restatement of Children and the Law highlights reforms in juvenile justice that acknowledge children's differing needs.
Identification of a composite latent dimension of reward and impulsivity across clinical, behavioral and neurobiological domains among youth
This study explored the complex relationship between reward processing and risk behaviors in youth. Researchers used advanced analysis to link brain activity and behavior, identifying patterns that shed light on psychiatric disorders.