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Summaries of All Articles in Potential Sources to Cite in a JRA Motion

Article Summaries for Potential Sources to Cite in a JRA Motion

Trauma Resources

Addressing Trauma and Psychosocial Development in Juvenile Justice-Involved Youth: A Synthesis of the Developmental Neuroscience, Juvenile Justice and Trauma Literature
Michelle Evans-Chase, 3 Laws 744-758 (2014).
Childhood family income, adolescent violent criminality and substance misuse: quasi-experimental total population study
Amir Sariaslan, et al., 205 British Journal of Psychiatry,:286-90. (2020).

Early Childhood Trauma Impact on Adolescent Brain Development, Decision Making Abilities, and Delinquent Behaviors: Policy Implications for Juveniles Tried in Adult Court Systems
Ashley Williams, 71 Juvenile & Family Court Journal 5-17 (2020)

Transformation Through Accomodation, Reforming Juvenile Justice by Recognizing and Responding to Trauma
Eduardo R. Ferrer, 53 American Criminal Law Review 549-593 (2020)

Impact of Race

Examining Racial Disparities in Juvenile Justice
Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy & Clarence Watson, 47 Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online 48-52 (2019)
Race and the Fragility of the Legal Distinction between Juveniles and Adults
Aneeta Rattan, 7 PLoS One
Race and Punishment: Racial Perceptions of Crime and Support for Punitive Policies
Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Ph.D., September 3, 2014
Race, Ethnicity, and the Criminal Justice System
American Sociological Society, September 2007
Rethinking Approaches to Over Incarceration of Black Young Adults in Maryland
Justice Policy Institute, November 6, 2019
The Color of Youth Transferred to the Adult Criminal Justice System: Policy and Practice Recommendations
Campaign for Youth Justice

Maturation

Are Adolescents Less Mature Than Adults? Minors' Access to Abortion, the Juvenile Death Penalty, and the Alleged APA "Flip-Flop"
Laurence Steinberg, 64 American Psychologist 583-94 (2009)
Brain Maturity Extends Well Beyond Teen Years
NPR: Tell Me More, October 11, 2011
Is 25 the New Cut-Off Point for Adulthood?
Lucy Wallis, BBC News, September 23, 2013
Maturation of the Adolescent Brain
Mariam Arain, et al., 9 Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 449-461 (2013)
The Life-Course of Juvenile Lifers: Understanding Maturation and Development as Miller and Its Progeny Guide Juvenile Life Sentence Release Decisions
Robert Johnson & Margaret E. Leigey, 3 Journal of Criminal Justice & Law 22 (2021)
When is the Brain Mature?
Kayt Sukel, Dana Foundation (April 4, 2017)

Adolescent Brain Development

Brain Development During Adolescence
Kerstin Konrad, et al., 110 Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
Brain Science and the Theory of Juvenile Mens Rea
Jenny E. Carroll, 94 North Carolina L. Rev. 539 (2016).
Less Guilty by Reason of Adolescence: Developmental Immaturity, Diminished Responsibility and the Juvenile Death Penalty
58 American Psychologist 1009-18 (2004).
The Adolescent Brain
B.J. Casey, Rebecca M. Jones & Todd A. Hareb, Ann N Y Acad Sci. (March 2008).

Science Resources

Why Is Synaptic Pruning Important for the Developing Brain?
Scientific American (May 1, 2017).
Myelin, MedlinePlus [Definition]
Age Differences in Sensation Seeking and Impulsivity as Indexed by Behavior and Self-Report: Evidence for a Dual Systems Model
Laurence Steinberg, et al., 44 Developmental Psychology 1764 (2008).
Age Differences in Resistance to Peer Influence
Laurence Steinberg & Kathryn C. Monahan, 43 Developmental Psychology 1531 (2006)
Peer Influence on Risk Taking, Risk Preference, and Risky Decision Making in Adolescence and Adulthood: An Experimental Study
Margo Gardner & Laurence Steinberg, 41 Developmental Psychology 625 (2005)
Reward-Biased Risk Appraisal and Its Relation to Juvenile Versus Adult Crime
Elizabeth P. Shulman & Elizabeth Cauffman, 37 Law & Human Behavior (2013).
Teens Impulsively React Rather than Retreat from Threat
Michael Dreyfuss, et al., 36 Developmental Neuroscience (May 2014)

Other Sources

Adolescent Gender Differences in Cognitive Control Performance and Functional Connectivity Between Default Mode and Fronto-Parietal Networks Within a Self-Referential Context
Gabriela Alarcón, et al., Frontiers in Behavioral Science (April 23, 2018)
Amicus Brief, Ghram v. Florida
American Psychological Association
Opinion: I made a serious mistake as Maryland governor. We need parole reform.
Parris Glendening, Washington Post (March 1, 2021)
National trends in sentencing children to life without parole
Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth (Feb. 2021)
Pathways to Desistance: Psychosocial Maturity and Desistance From Crime in a Sample of Serious Juvenile Offenders
OJJDP Juvenile Justice Bulletin (March 2015)
Trajectories of desistance and continuity in antisocial behavior following court adjudication among serious adolescent offenders—CORRIGENDUM
Edward P. Mulvey, et al., 22 Developmental Psychopathology 453 (May 2010)
Youth Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
Sentencing Project (Oct. 8, 2019)

Recidivism Resources