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Title: Community-Based Responses to Justice-Involved Young Adults
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Publication Year: 2015
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Abstract: This paper raises important questions about the criminal justice system’s response to young adults. Recent advances in behavior and neuroscience research confirm that brain development continues well into a person’s 20s, meaning that young adults have more psychosocial similarities to children than to older adults. This developmental distinction should help inform the justice system’s response to criminal behavior among this age group. Young adults comprise a disproportionately high percentage of arrests and prison . . .
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Authors: Schiraldi, Vincent; Western, Bruce; Bradner, Kendra
Publisher: National Institute of Justice
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