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Early Health Risk Factors for Violence: Conceptualization, Evidence, and Implications

Keywords Health Risk Factors; Alcohol during Pregnancy; Biosocial Interaction; Tobacco during Pregnancy; Toxicity and Drugs During Pregnancy; Head Injury During Early Childhood; Teenage Pregnancy; Birth Complications; Malnutrition of the Pregnant Mother; Malnutrition During Early Postnatal Years; Brain Dysfunction; Aggression; Child Behavior Problems; Violence Prevention; Protective Factors; Mediating Factors

Differential Effects of Adult Court Transfer on Juvenile Offender Recidivism

Keywords Adult transfer; Juvenile justice; Sanctions; Propensity scores; Recidivism

In re Monschke

Keywords mandatory LWOP; juvenile justice; juvenile life without parole; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); cruel and unusual punishment; Washington State Supreme Court; judicial discretion in sentencing; brain development in young offenders; adolescent brain development; neuroscience

Child Poverty and Adult Success

Keywords Low incomes ; Effects ; Financial struggles ; Basic needs ; High-quality education ; Living situations ; Poverty Data; Families; Children

State v. Monteiro

Keywords youth tried as adults; individuals convicted of multiple sentences; Mario’s Law; juvenile justice; LWOP; juvenile life without parole; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); proportionality principle; consecutive life sentence; gang-related murder

Developmental Trends in False Memory Across Adolescence and Young Adulthood: a Comparison of Drm and Memory Conformity Paradigms

Keywords Memory; Eye witness; Teenagers

Is Adolescence a Sensitive Period for Sociocultural Processing?

Keywords Adolescents; Brain development; Risk taking; Cognition; social cognition; mentalizing; adolescent brain development; plasticity; sensitive period

Development of Corticostriatal Connectivity Constrains Goal-directed Behavior During Adolescence

Keywords Brain development ; Children ; Adults ; Goals; Decision making

Declaration of Barry C. Feld, Ph.d., J.d.

Declaration Supporting Allocation of State Funds for Professional Services Re: Evaluation of Suspected Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (fasd) of Natalie Novick Brown, Phd

Report Or Affidavit of Joan W. Mayfield, Ph.d., A.b.n., A.b.pd,n.

Report Prepared by Laurence Steinberg, Ph.d.