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In recent years, criminal law is conducive to the scientific understanding of adolescent behavior. So far, these adjustments teen or a child of the most violent crimes, the death penalty or life imprisonment in cases before it was committed.Supreme Court precedent and recent studies have suggested that, if our legal system is fair, you reflect the reality of differences between adolescents and adults must continue to adjust.

Roper v. Simmons, Supreme Court, where the partially developing adolescent brain, "cruel and unusual punishment" prohibited by the Eighth Amendment because of the unique features of the rate of death of a teenager in the case. Recently, Graham V . In Florida, the court found that it was unconstitutional punishment for murder is a crime minors to life imprisonment. In both cases, recent scientific studies that young people are just wired differently, largely found as adults. they really "morally responsible" for the lack of brain development, but has a greater capacity for rehabilitation. because these studies are praying to have as fair a time Maybe, now unconstitutional.

There is no evidence that the biological age of maturity is not a man to 20 years. Parts of the brain that are involved in debt, "the relevant parts that impulsivity studies, governance, planning for the future in anticipation of the results" fully mature until after the age of majority, which range between 14 and 18 This finding across the country was to convince lawmakers and the courts to sentence defendants to turn young.

Every year there is more study concludes that the mind is a limited ability to make sound ethical decisions, and risk is calculated. Just last month, a new study from Oxford University that affect teenagers' ability to asses the risk of being found. Jennifer Lau, Ph.D., the study found that young people in the hippocampus and the risk of donkeys in the right amygdala is more confident, more adults (DLPFC) dorsolateral prefrontal cortex depending on. Hippocampus and amygdala with memory and brain "connection response of fight or flight response" old "parts. Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, however, is about the difference between the developed and the highest level. Committed to young people assess the risks

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