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Laurence Steinberg

  • Give Adolescents the Time and Skills to Mature, and Most Offenders Will Stop

    "The Pathways to Desistance study is a multi-site, longitudinal study of serious adolescent offenders as they transition from adolescence into earl

  • Psychosocial Maturity and Desistance From Crime in a Sample of Serious Juvenile Offenders

    "Understanding why most juvenile offenders desist from antisocial activity as a part of the normative transition into adulthood may provide importa

  • The Supreme Court and the Transformation of Juvenile Sentencing

    “In the past decade, the Supreme Court has transformed the constitutional landscape of juvenile crime regulation.