This article proposes a framework for theory and research on risk-taking that is informed by
developmental neuroscience. Two fundamental questions motivate this review. First, why …

Contemporary perspectives on age differences in risk taking, informed by advances in
developmental neuroscience, have emphasized the need to examine the ways in which …

Belief in free will is a pervasive phenomenon that has important consequences for prosocial
actions and punitive judgments, but little research has investigated why free will beliefs are …

Punitive attitudes of the general public were the focus of a considerable amount of research.
Much of the work focused on the demographic correlates of punitive attitudes and only a …

Psychological police interrogation methods in America inevitably involve some level of
pressure and persuasion to achieve their goal of eliciting confessions of guilt from custodial …

This paper addresses the possible consequences for racial and ethnic disparities of the
growing reliance on risk assessment tools for sentencing in juvenile justice systems. These …

Punishment (PUN) and rehabilitation (REH) attitudes toward sex offenders/offenses (SO)
and nonsexual offenders/offenses (NSO) were compared in a sample of 355 …

This paper discusses how juvenile waiver policies may be leading to a reduction in the
rehabilitative nature of the juvenile justice system. The first section discusses the value of the …

Understanding jurors' perceptions of juvenile defendants has become increasingly important
as more and more juvenile cases are being tried in adult criminal court rather than family or …

In a trilogy of cases, the Supreme Court applied the Eighth Amendment to the entire
category of juvenile offenders, repudiated its" death is different" jurisprudence, and required …