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Justice Is Not a Game: The Devastating Racial Inequity of Washington’s Three Strikes Law

Keywords Three Strikes Laws; Racial Disparities in Justice; Criminal Justice Reform; Persistent Offender Accountability Act (POAA); Policy Analysis; Life without Parole

Same Crime, Different Time: Sentencing Disparities in the Deep South & A Path Forward Under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Keywords Mass Incarceration; Racial Discrimination; Sentencing Disparities; State-Level Sentencing; Carceral State

Mandatory Sentences as Strict Liability

Keywords Mandatory Sentences; Sentencing Disparity; Strict Liability Crimes; Mens Rea; Criminal Intent

Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, Campaign for Fair Sentencing of Youth, et al. In Support of Respondent Lee Boyd Malvo

Keywords adolescents; brain; culpability; blameworthiness; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); juvenile death penalty; execution; minors; Stanford; youth; youthful offender; Atkins; confession; proportionality analysis; murder

Using risk of crime detection to study change in mechanisms of decision making

Keywords Perception of risk; Deterrence; Rational choice; Developmental; Stability

Neuroscience and the Model Penal Code's Mens Rea Categories

Keywords Neurolaw; Neuroscience; Criminal Law; Model Penal Code; Brain Imaging; Behavioral Science; Psychology

Detecting Mens Rea in the Brain

Keywords mens rea; knowing; reckless; model penal code; criminal law; fMRI; neuroscience

The Miller Trilogy, Jones, and the Future of Juvenile Sentencing and Constitutional Interpretation in the Post-Jones America

Keywords juvenile sentencing; extreme punishment; Miller; Jones v. Mississippi; sentencing reform; United States

The association between delinquent peer affiliation and disruptive behavior interacts with functional brain correlates of reward sensitivity: A biosocial interaction study in adolescent delinquents

Keywords biosocial criminology; childhood arrestees; conduct disorder; delinquent peer affiliation; disruptive behavioral disorder; fMRI; reward sensitivity; ventral striatum; amygdala; mPFC; DISC; youth delinquents

Competence, Culpability, and Punishment: Implications of Atkins for Executing and Sentencing Adolescents

Keywords Supreme Court; blameworthiness; capital punishment; proportionality; death penalty; developmental impairments; older adolescents; Atkins v. Virginia; judgment; impulse control; psychological characteristics; developmental characteristics; reduced culpability; mitigating factors

Developmental trajectories of legal socialization among serious adolescent offenders

Keywords legal socialization; adolescence; juvenile offenders

Differential item functioning in reports of delinquent behavior between Black and White youth: Evidence of measurement bias in self-reports of arrest in the adolescent brain cognitive development study

Keywords Differential Item Functioning; measurement bias; delinquency; racial group differences; adolescent brain cognitive development study

Black Girls and the Pipeline from Sexual Abuse to Sexual Exploitation to Prison

Keywords child sexual abuse; black girls; juvenile justice; abuse to prison pipeline; trauma

The Role of Social Determinants in Explaining Racial/ethnic Disparities in Perinatal Outcomes

Keywords Pregnancy; Environment; Race; Ethnicity

The Role of Puberty in the Developing Adolescent Brain

Keywords puberty; adolescence; development; hormones; prefrontal cortex