Normative adolescent brain development is associated with increases in risk taking, which may include criminal behavior. Juvenile delinquency peaks during the adolescent years and declines in concert with psychosocial maturation. However, current U.S. approaches to juvenile justice are misaligned with ...
I begin by focusing on the concept and history of adolescence in our society, I then examine the development and philosophy of the juvenile justice system. Adolescent development and juvenile justice are brought together around the concepts of maturity, judgment, and competence, followed by a brief...
Although justice system policy and practice cannot, and should not, be dictated solely by studies of adolescent development, the ways in which we respond to juvenile offending should be informed by the lessons of developmental science. This review begins with a brief overview of the history, ratio...
In the last 25 years, magnetic resonance imaging technology has fundamentally changed how human brain development is conceptualized. Brain structures and the communication among them are now understood to change well into early adulthood in ways that imp
This chapter discusses adolescent parents' risks for entry into the juvenile justice system, the impact on parenting of current services and policies associated with juvenile confinement, and the developmental and identity issues with which confined adolescent parents contend. The chapter concludes with a...
Exposure to violence during adolescence can significantly impact both executive functioning development and antisocial behavior trajectories (Op den Kelder et al., 2018). Perceptions of Psychic Rewards of Crime This concept was measured using the personal rewards subscale of the Indices of Personal and ...
though certain actions and certain situations might seem to relate to a form of hegemonic masculinity, it is important to place them in the broader context of the marginalization of youths from lower-class backgrounds, who make up the overwhelming majority of cases dealt with by juvenile justice....
Trauma. Most youth involved in juvenile justice or child welfare have been traumatized by abuse and/or loss of parent and/or exposure to violence. Trauma typically slows down development in children and, depending on the individual, can interfere with all aspects of the child's functioning (even...
Objective To assess the relationships between individual victimization and neighborhood-level violence on subsequent violent perpetration by adolescent girls in a community-based sample. Design Longitudinal, multilevel analysis of data collected by the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. Thr...
This chapter discusses adolescent parents' risks for entry into the juvenile justice system, the impact on parenting of current services and policies associated with juvenile confinement, and the developmental and identity issues with which confined adolescent parents contend. The chapter concludes with a...