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The neurobiological effects of childhood maltreatment on brain structure, function, and attachment

Keywords Childhood maltreatment; Psychopathology; Brain development; Early childhood; Adolescence; Neurobiological effects; Sensory systems; Phenotypic alterations; Brain structure; Epigenetics

Prospective associations of family conflict with alcohol expectancies in the adolescent brain cognitive development study: Effects of race and ethnicity

Keywords Alcohol expectancies; Adolescents; Cognitive Development; Youth substance use; Sociocultural factors; Mixed-effects regression; Black; White

The developmental timing but not magnitude of adolescent risk-taking propensity is consistent across social, environmental, and psychological factors

Keywords Adolescence; Risk-taking; National survey; Generalizability; Reproducibility; sensation seeking; substance use

Alexithymia as a mediator of the associations between child maltreatment and internalizing and externalizing behaviors in adolescence

Keywords child maltreatment; adolescence; alexithymia; internalizing behaviors; externalizing behaviors; mediation; gender differences; sexual abuse; emotional abuse; intimate partner violence; IPV; exposure to IPV

A Review of Arguments for Raising the Age of Criminal Responsibility

Keywords Age of criminal responsibility; Content analysis; MACR; Youth justice

Bio-behavioral scientific evidence alters judges' sentencing decision-making: A quantitative analysis

Keywords Sentencing; Decision-making; Punishment; Retribution; Behavior; Mental disorders

Girls in Juvenile Justice

Keywords Juvenile justice; Female offenders; Interpersonal violence; Gender-responsive programming; School-to-prison pipeline; Disproportionate minority contact (DMC); Racial and ethnic disparities (RED); Diversion; Decarceration; Intersectionality; Trauma-informed practice

Commonwealth v. Seskey

Keywords juvenile offender; Commonwealth v. Batts; life without parole; LWOP; juvenile life without parole; JLWOP; Montgomery v. Louisiana; Miller v. Alabama; resentencing

Commonwealth v. Machicote

Keywords juvenile offender; second-degree murder; life without parole; LWOP; juvenile life without parole; JLWOP; Eighth Amendment; Miller v. Alabama

Horsley v. State

Keywords juvenile offender; non-homicide offense; Graham v. Florida; Miller v. Alabama; resentencing; Eighth Amendment

Virginia v. LeBlanc

Keywords juvenile offender; Graham v. Florida; geriatric release program; Virginia

Williams v. State

Keywords juvenile offender; life sentence; parole eligibility; Atwell v. State; Horsley v. State; Miller v. Alabama; de facto sentence of life without parole

Stallings v. State

Keywords juvenile offender; life sentence; parole eligibility; Atwell v. State; Horsley v. State

Croft v. State

Keywords juvenile offender; Miller v. Alabama; Graham v. Florida; Atwell v. State; life sentence; parole eligibility

Atwell v. State

Keywords juvenile offender; Miller v. Alabama; life sentence; parole eligibility; de facto sentence of life without parole; Henry v. State

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