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Expanding understanding of adolescent neural sensitivity to peers: Using social information processing theory to generate new lines of research.

Keywords Peer influence; FMRI; Adolescence; Individual differences; Behavior

Decoding Adolescent Decision Making: Neurocognitive Processes, Risk Perception, and the Influence of Peers

Keywords Adolescent Risk-Taking; Dual Process Model; Reward System; Cognitive Control; Prefrontal Cortex; Neuroimaging; Adolescent Brain Development; Peer Influence; Decision Making; Risk Perception

Responding to the Trauma That Is Endemic to the Criminal Legal System: Many Opportunities for Juvenile Prevention, Intervention, and Rehabilitation.

Keywords Trauma; Juvenile; Racism; Trauma-informed care; Prevention

From Suspension to Mass Incarceration: Punishment of Students with Special Needs and the School-To-Prison Pipeline.

Keywords Zero-tolerance policies; School discipline; School-to-prison pipeline; Students with disabilities; Marginalized students; Racial disparities; School-based arrests

A Meaningful Life: The Future of Juvenile Justice in Washington After Anderson

Keywords juvenile sentencing; de facto life sentence; Miller v. Alabama; Eighth Amendment; juvenile brain development; racial bias; Washington Supreme Court; Anderson; Miller factors; youthful offenders

Ten is Too Young: South Dakota's Need for a Legislative Amendment Raising the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility to Fourteen

Keywords Criminal Responsibility; Juvenile Justice; Juvenile Justice Reform; ACEs; South Dakota

Neuroscience and the Criminal Legal System: A Humanitarian Application Framework

Keywords neuroscience; mass incarceration; free will; retribution; recidivism; neurolaw; humanitarian application framework; neurorights

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

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

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