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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

The Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ace) in the Lives of Juvenile Offenders

Keywords Adolescents; Trauma; Health; Young offenders; Childhood; Juvenile offenders; prevention; victimization; maltreatment

Motion of Forty Developmental Science Scholars and Nonprofits for Leave to File Amicus Brief in Support of Appellants; Brief of Amici Curiae

Keywords People v. Parks; Michigan Constitution; mandatory life without parole; mandatory LWOP; late adolescence; mitigating characteristics of youth; Miller v. Alabama; Roper v. Simmons; developmental neuroscience; Graham v. Florida; Montgomery v. Louisiana

Neuroscience and the insanity defense: Trying to put a round peg in a square hole.

Keywords Insanity defense; Neuroimaging; Legal responsibility; Legal capacity; Mental state

The effects of a defendant's childhood physical abuse on lay support for sentencing: The moderating role of essentialism

Keywords Childhood abuse; Sentencing; Social essentialism; Biological essentialism; Rehabilitation; Restoration

The Influence of Substance Use on Adolescent Brain Development

Keywords Adolescence; Alcohol; Marijuana; Use; fMRI; Hangover; Withdrawal; alcoholism; functional magnetic resonance imaging; diffusion tensor imaging

The Myth of Youth: Rethinking the Negligence Standard of Care for Minors in the Age of Neuroscience

Keywords Negligence; legal standard of care; adolescence; brain development

State v. Bunch

Keywords juvenile justice; LWOP; post-conviction relief; eyewitness testimony; juvenile life without parole

Criteria and Procedures for Meaningful Parole Review for People Sentenced as Youth

Keywords Juvenile life without parole; JLWOP; Eighth Amendment jurisprudence; parole hearings; youth as a mitigating factor; post-crime maturity; rehabilitation

Capital sentencing and neuropsychiatry

Keywords aggravation; capital punishment; criminal sentencing; death penalty; ethics; forensic neuropsychiatry; intellectual disability; juvenile offenders; risk assessment; psychopathy; mitigation

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