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Advancing Racial Justice Through the Restatement of Children and the Law
Keywords Restatement of Children and the Law; racial bias; disparate treatment; juvenile justice system; adolescent development; racial justice; procedural protections(2024)
Child Sexual Abuse Victimization Amongst Detained Adolescents and Incarcerated Young Adults: Findings from an Australian Population-Based Birth Cohort Study
Keywords incarceration; youth detention; custodial; sexual abuse; maltreatment; adverse childhood experiences; administrative data; linkage(2024)
Shepard v. State
Keywords Death sentence upheld; mitigating evidence; childhood trauma; Complex PTSD; penalty phase; legal challenge; capital punishment(2023)
Watkinson v. Dep’t of Corr.
Keywords solitary confinement; psychological trauma; medical understandings; scientific understandings; isolation; mental-health harms; emotional-distress claim(2023)
Brief of Bronx Defenders, Brooklyn Defender Services, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, NY County Defender Services, and Queens Defenders as Amici Curiae in Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for Contempt and Application for Appointment of a Receiver
Keywords excessive force; New York City jails; public defenders; constitutional rights; DOC custody; Rikers Island; legal services; violence; dysfunction; Consent Decree(2023)
Brief of Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island, Aaron Regunberg and Leonela Felix in Support of Affirmance
Keywords Qualified immunity; Eighth Amendment; cruel and unusual punishment; solitary confinement; mental illness; self-harm; prisoner rights; Rhode Island prison system(2023)
Brief of Former Corrections Executives as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner and Reversal of the Seventh Circuit
Keywords solitary confinement; mental illness; prison reform; psychological harm; correctional facilities; rehabilitation; exercise deprivation; behavioral issues; penal justice; recidivism(2023)
Attorney Perspectives of Financial Capacity Among Older Adults
Keywords financial abuse; financial exploitation; older adults; financial capacity; legal field; thematic analysis; attorneys; assessment methods; experiential knowledge; detection; interdisciplinary work(2023)
Mapping Home, Memory and Spatial Recovery in Forced Displacement
Keywords refugees; forced displacement; memory; spatial recovery; participatory mapping(2023)
Head Trauma in Refugees and Asylum Seekers: A Systematic Review
Keywords refugees; asylum seekers; head trauma; traumatic brain injury; violence; systematic review; mental health comorbidity(2023)
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Refugees
Keywords posttraumatic stress disorder; PTSD; refugees; mental health; treatment; mechanisms; review(2023)
Internal capsule microstructure mediates the relationship between childhood maltreatment and PTSD following adulthood trauma exposure
(2023)
Locating causal hubs of memory consolidation in spontaneous brain network in male mice
(2023)
Brief of Brock Chisholm, Sondra Crosby, Beatrice Patsalides Hofmann, David Luban, and Stephen N. Xenakis as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords torture; domestic law; international law; adjudicative proceedings; victims' well-being; adversary system; judicial process; torture-derived information(2023)
Impaired learning, memory, and extinction in posttraumatic stress disorder: translational meta-analysis of clinical and preclinical studies
(2023)