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The Supreme Court and the Sentencing of Juveniles in the United States: Reaffirming the Distinctiveness of Youth
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The Court's adoption of a developmental model of culpability may produce future challenges to lengthy juvenile sentences, broad provisions allowing transfer of juveniles for trial as adults, and even possibly to younger juveniles' competence to stand trial.About:
This article is published in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America.The article was published on 2011-07-01. It has received 5 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Supreme court & Supreme Court Decisions.read more
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Predictability of Delinquency through Psychosocial and Environmental Variables across Three Generational Status Groups
TL;DR: Predictability of Delinquency through Psychosocial and Environmental Variables across Three Generational Status Groups by Margaret Frances Sabia MSCJ, Everest University, 2012 BS, University of Connecticut, 2008 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy as mentioned in this paper
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Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry
TL;DR: The US Supreme Court has recognized several aspects of the neurobiological and social development of children and adolescents which contributes to their propensity to engage in criminal behavior and their subsequent potential to be found responsible for their actions.
Evaluation of juvenile sexual delinquency at the Ankara 1st Children’s High Criminal Court
TL;DR: The case files in which the trials were completed were retrospectively examined and analyzed for sexual offenses at the Ankara 1st Children’s High Criminal Court between 2007 and 2012 to evaluate the events being tried for sexual crimes.
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The Mental Health Paradigm and the MacArthur Study: Emerging Issues Challenging the Competence of Juveniles in Delinquency Systems, 32 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LAW & MEDICINE 503 (2006).
TL;DR: The authors discusses some of the issues involved in competency determinations of juveniles awaiting trial; addressing both the more traditional factors, such as mental illness and mental retardation, and some recent studies and literature identifying developmental immaturity as an emerging basis for challenging the competency of juveniles to stand trial.
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Commentary: Building a Developmental-Ecological Model of Criminal Culpability During Adolescence
TL;DR: In this commentary, the principles of developmental psychopathology can be used to articulate a developmental-ecological model of criminal culpability for use by forensic clinicians in the assessment of younger defendants, as the courts more broadly accept the concept of mitigation of legal responsibility by reason of developmental immaturity.
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Reckless behavior in adolescence: A developmental perspective
TL;DR: In this article, a developmental theory of reckless behavior among adolescents is presented, in which sensation seeking and adolescent egocentrism are especially prominent factors, and factors that may be responsible for the decline of reckless behaviour with age are discussed.
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Less guilty by reason of adolescence: developmental immaturity, diminished responsibility, and the juvenile death penalty.
TL;DR: The authors argue that juveniles should not be held to the same standards of criminal responsibility as adults, because adolescents' decision-making capacity is diminished, they are less able to resist coercive influence, and their character is still undergoing change.
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Neuropsychiatric, psychoeducational, and family characteristics of 14 juveniles condemned to death in the United States.
Dorothy Otnow Lewis,Jonathan H. Pincus,Barbara Bard,Ellis Richardson,Leslie S. Prichep,Marilyn Feldman,Catherine A. Yeager +6 more
TL;DR: Of the 37 juveniles currently condemned to death in the United States, all of the 14 incarcerated in four states received comprehensive psychiatric, neurological, neuropsychological, and educational evaluations.
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The competence of criminal defendants: A theoretical reformulation.
TL;DR: The concept of decisional competence as mentioned in this paper is based on the notion of competence to assist a criminal defense and a contextualized concept of competence for decisional decisional competency to assist criminal defendants.
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Youth on Trial: A Developmental Perspective on Juvenile Justice
Thomas Grisso,Robert G. Schwartz +1 more
TL;DR: Youth on Trial as mentioned in this paper is the fruit of the MacArthur Foundation Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice (MFFJ), where a wide range of leaders in developmental psychology and law combine their expertise to investigate the current limitations on our youth policy.