FIRST:

• Consider the phenomenon of teenagers being tried as adults for serious crimes and/or receiving lengthy prison sentences.
• Imagine that you are serving on a state juvenile-justice coalition. The coalition is looking at the fairness of trying teens as adults in light of neurobiological research.

THEN:

Submit a letter to your fellow coalition members in which you:

• Describe development during adolescence, in terms of the brain, learning, and reward and consequence.
• Apply this information to the topic of teens and crime. Make an argument about whether teens should be tried as adults for serious crimes, based on what is going on developmentally at that stage.

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PLEASE ANSWER QUESTIONS IN ORDER THEY ARE ASKED!

PLEASE USE QUOTES, CITATIONS AND OR REFERENCES FROM THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:

Neurobiology for Clinical Social Work 2ND 18

Author:

Shapiro, Janet R. / Applegate, Jeffrey S.

What Happened to You? 2021

Author:

Winfrey, Oprah / Perry, Bruce D.