The Teenage Brain: Adolescent Brain Research and the Law

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 158-161

  Bonnie, Richard J ^a   Scott, Elizabeth S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW   (United States)

^b Columbia Law School ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; juvenile justice; law; neuroscience; risk taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876272357     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721412471678     Document Type: Article

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