Resource Library
Aligning Justice System Processing with Developmental Science
Keywords emerging adulthood; human and social costs of incarceration(2012)
Adolescence: A Foundation for Future Health
Keywords Adolescence; Health habits; Well-being; Puberty; Environment; Social factors; Health behaviors; Brain development(2012)
Age-related Differences in Emotional Reactivity, Regulation, and Rejection Sensitivity in Adolescence
Keywords Emotion regulation; Adolescent development; Rejection sensitivity; Perspective; Age; Reactivity; Stimuli; Reappraisal(2012)
Considerations for Imaging the Adolescent Brain
Keywords Brain scans ; Brain development ; Teenage years ; Insights ; Behavior ; Factors ; Puberty ; Sleep patterns ; Pregnancy; Developmental neuroscience; Adolescent brain development; MRI(2012)
Development of the Social Brain in Adolescence
Keywords Brain development; Brain scans; Children; Adults; Theory of mind(2012)
Risk Taking and the Adolescent Reward System: a Potential Common Link to Substance Abuse
Keywords Risk-taking; drug use; gambling task; brain development; behavior; young adults; MRI; gray matter; ventral striatum(2012)
Paula E v. State of Alaska, Department of Health and Social Services
Keywords substance use; termination of parental rights; domestic violence; visitation rights; Alaskan Supreme Court; removal from parents(2012)
Jackson v. State
Keywords MDMA; firearms convictions; mental illness defenses; sufficiency of evidence; convictions(2012)
Romero v. State
Keywords LWOP sentence; second-degree murder; Graham v. Florida; juveniles; non-homicide cases; murder conviction; emerging adults(2012)
State v. Wright
Keywords death sentence; expert testimony; heroin addiction; withdrawal; cognitive limits; Miranda waiver(2012)
Conley v. State
Keywords juvenile offender; juvenile life without parole; JLWOP; Miller v. Alabama; aggravating circumstances; mitigating circumstances(2012)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center on Behalf of Appellant
Keywords Miller; mandatory LWOP; mandatory life without parole; murder; Graham; intent to kill; felony murder; juvenile culpability; juvenile blameworthiness(2012)
Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center et al. in Support of Appellees and Urging Affirmance
Keywords Fourth Amendment (U.S.); strip searches; Special Needs Test; juveniles; adolescents; suspicionless strip searches; probable cause; minors; children; teenagers; reasonable suspicion; individualized suspicion; adolescent vulnerability; adolescent development; trauma; Body ID policy; intrusive searches(2012)
Brief on Behalf of Defendant-Appellant
Keywords first degree murder; mandatory sentencing; individualized sentencing; Miller; Graham; meaningful opportunity for release(2012)
Brief of Jeffrey Fagan, Deborah Baskin, Frank R. Baumgartner, Katherine Beckett, Donna Bishop, Alfred Blumstein, and Robert Brame et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners
Keywords deterrence; super predator myth; juvenile; LWOP; life without parole; juvenile offenders; violent crime(2012)