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Distorted Burden Shifting & Barred Mitigation: Being a Stubborn 234 Years Old Ironically Hasn’t Helped the Supreme Court Mature

Keywords Capital Punishment; Adverse Childhood Experiences; Mitigation; Health Law; Criminal Procedure; Criminal Law; Biopsychosocial Development; United States Supreme Court

Reprieves Return: Minnesota's Decision to Awaken the Reprieve

Keywords Reprieve; Pardon; Youthful Offender; commutation

The relationship between cognitive and affective control and adolescent mental health

Keywords adolescence; affective control; cognitive control; depression; mental health

Mapping potential pathways from polygenic liability through brain structure to psychological problems across the transition to adolescence

Keywords Polygenic score; brain structure; general factor of psychopathology; externalizing

Peer Assumption: An Illusory Consensus Hidden in the Criminal Responsibility of Juvenile Offender— Evidence from Psychology

Keywords juvenile delinquent; criminal responsibility; dialectical thinking; self control; empathy

Brain Science and the Theory of Juvenile Mens Rea

Keywords juvenile justice; Eighth Amendment; Fourth Amendment; Miranda v. Arizona; Roper v. Simmons; Graham v. Florida; Miller v. Alabama; J.D.B. v. North Carolina; mens rea

Stability and cross-lagged relations among callous-unemotional traits, moral identity, moral emotion attribution and externalizing behavior problems in adolescents

Keywords Callous-unemotional traits (CU-traits); Adolescence; Moral identity; Moral emotion attribution; Externalizing behavior problems; Longitudinal study; Cross-lagged model; Predictive links; Behavioral stability; Psychopathy traits; Moral development; Conduct disorders; Antisocial behavior

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

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