Study Highlighted on Last Week Tonight, Bringing Attention to Juvenile Justice

June 18, 2025

Our research paper, Making the Sentencing Case: Psychological and Neuroscientific Evidence for Expanding the Age of Youthful Offenders,” by Drs. Casey, Simmons, Somerville, and Baskin-Sommers, was cited on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver in a segment on juvenile justice. Read the full paper here.

 

Reference:

Casey, BJ and Simmons, C. and Somerville, L.H. and Baskin-Sommers, A., Making the Sentencing Case: Psychological and Neuroscientific Evidence for Expanding the Age of Youthful Offenders (January 2022). Annual Review of Criminology, Vol. 5, pp. 321-343, 2022. (First published as a Review in Advance online on August 23, 2021)

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