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Brief of Amici Curiae Ad Hoc Committee of Former Prosecutors, Former Judges, Former Governmental Officials, Leaders of Bar Associations and Law School Deans and Professors, in Support of Defendants-appellants
Keywords Miller; retroactive relief; resentencing; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); reduced culpability; lesser blameworthiness; LWOP; life without parole; capacity for change(2014)
Amicus Curiae Brief of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. in Support of Defendant-appellants Raymond Curtis Carp, Dakotah Wolfgang Eliason, and Cortez Roland Davis
Keywords superpredator myth; racial disparities; juveniles; youth violence; racial disparities; LWOP; life without parole; racialized criminalization of youth; juvenile sentencing laws(2014)
Amicus Curiae Brief on Behalf of Faith-based Organizations and Religious Leaders
Keywords religion; LWOP; mandatory life without parole; Eighth Amendment; Miller; retroactive relief; resentencing; children(2014)
Amicus Curiae Brief of the State Appellate Defender Office
Keywords Miller; retroactive relief; resentencing; substantive rule; procedural rule; Teague; juvenile murder; first-degree murder; Eighth Amendment; LWOP; life without parole(2014)
ACLU Amicus Brief
Keywords Miller; retroactive relief; resentencing; mandatory JLWOP; mandatory juvenile life without parole; mitigating facts; substantive rule; Teague; procedural rule; youth; individualized capital sentencing doctrine; Eighth Amendment(2014)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center, et al. Amici Curiae in Support of Appellants Carp, Davis and Eliason
Keywords Miller; adolescent development; neuroscientific research; intent to kill; mandatory LWOP; mandatory life without parole; Graham; felony murder; Eighth Amendment (U.S.)(2014)
Suicidality, Bullying and Other Conduct and Mental Health Correlates of Traumatic Brain Injury in Adolescents
Keywords TBI; adolescent; suicide; bullying; conduct; mental health; brain injury(2014)
Addressing Trauma and Psychosocial Development in Juvenile Justice-Involved Youth: A Synthesis of the Developmental Neuroscience, Juvenile Justice and Trauma Literature
Keywords juvenile justice; adolescent development; self-regulation; trauma; ACEs; neural development; brain development(2014)
Kosilek v. Spencer
Keywords deliberate indifference; serious medical need; prison staff; risk management; future harm(2014)
Alvarado v. Westchester County
Keywords heroin withdrawal; cold-turkey; methadone; Suboxone; rights violation; Monell claim; Eighth Amendment(2014)
Perceived Discrimination Among African American Adolescents and Allostatic Load: a Longitudinal Analysis with Buffering Effects
Keywords Adolescents; Black; Racism; Stress; Health; allostatic load; development; discrimination(2014)
Phasic Dopamine Neuron Activity Elicits Unique Mesofrontal Plasticity in Adolescence
Keywords Brain development; mental health; brain activity; teenagers; adolescents; adults; brain scans; neuroscience; neuroplasticity; adolescence; dopmaine; frontal cortex; in vivo imaging; optogenetics; phasic activity(2014)
Sharing and Giving Across Adolescence: an Experimental Study Examining the Development of Prosocial Behavior
Keywords Children; adolescents; teenagers; emotional control; friends; peers; friendship; behavior; prosocial behavior; fairness; trust; reciprocity; peer relationships(2014)
Socioeconomic Status and Structural Brain Development
Keywords Brain scans; neuroscience; brain development; environment; socioeconomic status; memory; emotional control; structural imaging; environmental variation(2014)
Is Adolescence a Sensitive Period for Sociocultural Processing?
Keywords Adolescents; Brain development; Risk taking; Cognition; social cognition; mentalizing; adolescent brain development; plasticity; sensitive period(2014)