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Addiction, Adolescence, and the Integration of Control and Motivation
Keywords adolescence; addiction; dual-process models; risky decision making; attentional bias; training; risk taking(2011)
Adolescent Brain Development and Drugs
Keywords Adolescence; Behavior; Brain development; Choices; Drugs; Safety(2011)
Behavioral Assessment of Emotion Discrimination, Emotion Regulation, and Cognitive Control in Childhood, Adolescence, and Adulthood
Keywords emotion-regulation; emotion; faces; go/nogo; Mental control; Age Brain imaging/scans; Development(2011)
Braking and Accelerating of the Adolescent Brain
Keywords Adolescence; brain; development; fMRI; risk; incentive; cognitive control; connectivity(2011)
Cognitive Control in Adolescence: Neural Underpinnings and Relation to Self-Report Behaviors
Keywords Adolescents; Prefrontal cortex; Impulsivity; Monte Carlo method; Attention; Questionnaires; Semantics(2011)
US v. Figueroa
Keywords sentencing enhancement; drug addiction; substance use; culpability; drug trafficking; conspiracy(2011)
US v. Chowdhury
Keywords Medicare fraud; sentence; drug use(2011)
McNeill v. U.S.
Keywords drug offense; maximum sentence; time of conviction; state law penalties; prior drug offense; sentencing(2011)
Gray v. State
Keywords waiver to adult court; cruel and unusual punishment; Eighth Amendment; discretionary sentencing; juvenile life without parole; rehabilitation(2011)
Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, Campaign for Fair Sentencing of Youth, et al. in Support of Respondent Lee Boyd Malvo
Keywords Miller; LWOP; life without parole; attendant characteristics of youth; disproportionate sentences; Miller factors(2011)
Brief of Loyola Civitas Law Center, Children and Family Justice Center, Juvenile Law Center, and National Juvenile Defender Center as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner-Appellant Austin M.
Keywords least restrictive placement of a child; juveniles; plea offers; guardian ad literm; children; delinquency proceeding; right to counsel(2011)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center as Amicus Curiae on Behalf of Appellant, L.S.W.
Keywords juvenile; juvenile life without parole; JLWOP; developmental differences; cruel and unusual punishment; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); capacity for rehabilitation; adolescent development; felony-murder; transient nature of adolescence; temporary immaturity; international law; Graham(2011)
Amici Curiae Brief on Behalf of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, the Latina/o Bar Association of Washington, and the Loren Miller Bar Association, in Support of Petitioner
Keywords risky behavior; impulsivity; brain development; youth offenders; vulnerability to peer pressure; culpability; susceptibility to deterrence; de facto life sentences; non-homicide offenders; meaningful opportunity to obtain release; rehabilitation; capacity for change; late adolescence; decision making; prefrontal cortex(2011)
Brief of Amicus Curiae TeamChild
Keywords Zero Tolerance policies; children; teens; school; students; law enforcement; juvenile justice system; search and seizure; searches; school discipline policies(2011)
Brief of Indiana, et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent
Keywords age; custodial interrogation; Miranda; perception of custody; maturity; confessions; voluntary confessions; juvenile special protections(2011)