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“ Teens take more risks not because they don’t understand the dangers but because they weigh risk versus reward differently: In situations where risk can get them something they want, they value reward more heavily then adults do.”(para  32)

Teens do have some sort of idea of the trouble they are getting themselves in but they take the risk because they are obsessed with the reward. This obsession makes them belive that the reward is worth it. This is related to how Alonza attempted to rob the store. He thought the reward was worth the risk.

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"by the age of 15 they can score as well as adults if they are motivated, resisting temptation about 70 to 80 % of the time."
(paragraph 17)

Most teens up to a certain age are still maturing and growing as people though they are able to score the same hing an adult would  they do not have anything more that the textbook experience to make decisions. All this test is showing is that most children to this point have the same knowledge but are unable to apply it in a real word setting the same way Alonza was a little kid who was pressured into doing stuff that he would not normally do. Age and personal experience has so much to do with how they are treated in the justice sysrem.

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"Along with lacking experience generally, they're still learning to use their brain's new networks. Stress, fatigue, or challenges can cause a misfire" (para 19)

I feel like this quote really goes to show how complicated the human brain is, and how it takes a while for teens to respond to situations responsibly and logically. Thus, the juveniles shouldn't be treated as adults in most cases, but there are a few cases in which teens should be tried as an adult.

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contrite. he did not object when i told him to pay the fines and probably for a lawyer. he did not object when i pointed out that if anything happens at that speed a dog in the road , a blow tire, he dies.(paragraph 9)

Teens at a young age have different mind sets compared to adults, the angry outburst or irrational thinking are apart of everybody but teens are just full of emotion and other things but they think that if they do something crazy they wont be held responsible.

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" I suggest that except for extraordinary circumstances, no child under the age of a least 17 should be sentenced to lengthy incarceration in adult jails. It s beyond debate that human does not reach anything close to maturity until the early to mid 20s." (Paragraph 6)

Most teens are barely maturing during their late teen years, they simply don't understand the nature and the consequences of their actions as it says in paragraph 7.

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"This let the adult use a variety of brain resources and better resist temptation, while the teens used those areas less often and more readily give into impulse."
(paragraph 17)

This quote shows that teens have the ability to be like adults but they are less focused. This can cause problems and makes me think juveniles shouldn't be charged as adults, unless it is proven that the juvenile are competent.

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" It can seem a bit crazy that we humans don't wise up a bit earlier in life. But if we smartened up sooner, we'd end up dumber" (para 53)

This quote tells us that even "adults" aren't matured at their age, so what makes us think that children/ teens are thinking of the actions that they are making at a young age.

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"If offered an extra reward, however, teens showed they could push those executive regions to work harder, improving their scores. And by age 20, their brains respond to this task much as the adults' do."
Paragraph 18
This quote shows that juveniles are still in the process of brain development. They are unaware of consequences unlike adults. It takes time for them to build their brains.

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"The urge to meet more  people, for instance , can create a wider circle of friends, which generally makes us healthier, happier, safer, and more successful." (Paragraph 27)

This answers the question because when we have these juveniles who are exposed to nothing but other juveniles they are going to think what they did is okay because they are surrounded by people who are doing the same thing. Their brains aren't growing or expanding to whats right from wrong. The article claims that teens who are exposed to meeting new people tend to be good people but if we have criminals exposed to other criminals nothing is good from that.

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"Teens take more risks not because they don't  understand the dangers but because they weigh risk versus reward differently: In situations where risk can get them something they want, they value the reward more heavily than adults do." (paragraph 32)

This tells us that teens even though they know between good and bad and may seem to be a bit older than a child. They still act like children who want to be rewarded with something.

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This view, as titles from the explosion of scientific papers and popular articles about the "teen brain" put it, presents adolescents as "works in progress" whose "immature brains" lead some to question whether they are in a state "akin to mental retardation" (para 21)
This quote tells us how teens are still learning and don't know how to function completely and it is still developing and growing as we age so we start to realize whats right and wrong.

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"When teens drive the course alone... they take risk at about the same rate as adult... however, and the situation changes. In this case Steinberg added friends... the teen would take twice as many risk." (para. 34)

I think this is a very profound paragraph because it show the true power of peer pressure and it just brought me to think of all the stupid thing that highschooler and college student do, some of which is very serious like this one case where a bunch of teen was throwing rock down a highway and killing a man and they should obviously be tried but taken into account of the paragraph above.

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"Culture clearly shapes adolescence. It influences its expression and possibly its length. It can magnify its manifestations. Yet culture does not create adolescence." (para. 44)

This quote shows how teenagers and adolescence could be easily inspired by many this that are in our screens. Pop culture and even our parents are huge influences in our lives, they molded us into who we are today. If we don't have that, then our teen brains would easily be influenced by something that could harm them in the future.

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Quote:  "A National Institutes of health (NIH) project that studied over a hundred young people as they grew up during the 1990's showed that our brains undergo a massive reorganization between our 12th and 25th years." (paragraph 12)

This is basically cold hard facts that not only proves a point that adolescent individuals are fragile and need to be handled with care, this has been proven by professionals that actually do research on mental health. They do lack the personality and social formalities that occur in their lives while also having an understanding for what is right from wrong.

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"But as we move through adolescence, the brain undergoes extensive remodeling, resembling a network and wiring upgrade." (para.12)

Brain development occurs most when teenagers continue to age which affects their actions and thought process.

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"They're not thinking, or by the work-in-progress model, their puny developing brains fail them." (para. 30)

This quote answers the question because our brains are still developing during the adolescent stage. It is because of this that we think differently from adults. Things that seem outrageous to adults are normal for teens which is why teens should be put in rehabs to reevaluate their life choices.

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"Teens take more risks not because they don't understand the dangers but because they weigh risk versus reward differently"

(paragraph 32)

I believe that this quote correlates with the question because teens don't really understand the dangers of doing certain things, and teens take more risks, leading them to do foolish things that will get them in trouble.

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"As Laurence Steinberg, a developmental psychologist specializing in adolescence at Temple University, points out, even 14-to 17-year-olds---the biggest risk takers---use the same basic cognitive strategies that adults do, and they usually reason their way through problems just as well as adults... And, like adults says Seinberg, "teens actually overestimate risk."

This quote answers the question because within these ages we might process like an adult would but we actually can always be wrong. overestimating as a teenager can be usual when in these growing stages of adulthood.

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"We're so used to seeing adolescence as a problem. But the more we learn about what really makes this period unique, the more adolescence starts to seem like a highly functional, even adaptive period." (paragraph 24)

Studies can provide much information to back up the development of children and answer the "why". But until society is past the ignorance, only then can  we listen and understand the causes (instinct) without their feedback loop. They will understand, development takes longer than anyone thought and it needs to be recognized.

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"Compared with adults, teens tended to make less use of brain regions that monitor performance, spot errors, plan, and stay focused-areas the adults seemed to bring online automatically." (para. 17)

This explains well why juveniles committed the crimes they did. Teenagers' brains are not fully developed because they are still in the time period of learning and growing both mentally and physically. Therefore, teens' brains lack certain signals more than adults because the region of the brain that monitors performance, spot errors, plan, and stay focus aren't used as much as adults. They lack resistance temptations and take risks. This means that teens are more likely to look away from the road to read a text message that they got.

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"They act that way because their brains aren't done!" (para. 20).

This quote answers the question because the issue for most of the irrational crimes these children commit are because their brains aren't fully devolved. They struggle with finding their own personality so they tend to look for a figure to guide them, ending in tragic friendships that lead to forced crimes. Therefore, adolescence are more vulnerable and need to be dealt with a more cautious method than adults because they are the future.

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But at times, and especially at first, the brain does this work clumsily. It's hard to get all those new cogs to mesh. (para. 15)

With this excerpt, I believe that it really expands the point of how we all take time to adapt to the real world. Kids need time to full develop their impulses, their desire, their goals, their, self-interest, their rules, their ethics, and even their altruism. It also proves that these kids don't understand the basics of life until they hit their teen lives. They also don't understand the repercussions that will follow if they commit such crimes, but the teens will only learn the things if they have the right mindset to learn it.

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"The slow and uneven developmental arc revealed by these imaging studies offers an alluringly pithy explanation for why teens may do stupid things like drive at 113 miles an hour, aggrieve their ancientry, and get people (or get gotten) with child: They act that way because their brains aren't done! You can see it right there in the scans! "

This quote supports the idea of teenage brain development is still

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"... our brains undergo a massive reorganization between our 12th and 25th years." (paragraph 12)

This quote answers the question because within the ages 12-25, our brains are still developing and can change our perspective on the world. During this period, our brain slowly develops until it reaches 100 percent. Many teens make mistakes, but what is important is that they learn from that mistake. However, putting a juvenile in prison is not the way to help them.

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"But as we move through adolescence, the brain undergoes extensive remodeling, resembling a network and wiring upgrade." (para 12)

This quote clearly shows that our brains are not fully developed as children. Children do not fully understand what it means to commit a real crime with real intentions. They do not understand the consequences of their actions like adults do.

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"These studies help explain why teens behave with such vexing inconsistency... Along with lacking experience generally, they're still learning to use their brain's new networks." (para. 19)

It is not a surprise that juveniles commit serious crimes. Their brains slowly and unevenly develop, causing them to do extremely reckless things. Adolescents are filled with angst, idiocy, impulsiveness, and as a result, are low-functioning human beings. Along with their premature brains comes a way of thinking in which teens value rewards over risk. So, for kids in the justice system, I would say it's not wise to punish children for things they cannot control, their brain development. Their brains already failed them, must the justice system too?

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"This process of maturation, once thought to be largely finished by elementary school, continues throughout adolescence " (para. 14)

This quote answers the question because it shows that contrary to old belief that people aren't mature until much later than elementary school students. It also proves that these kids don't understand the consequences of their actions and are unable to comprehend much of what they did.

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"This delayed completion-a withholding of readiness- heightens flexibility just as we confront and enter the world that we will face as adults." (para. 52)
The reason why adolescences behave the way they do is because the brain is remaking itself. It takes a long period to reorganize what we learn and using it to adapt to becoming adults. So it answers the question that teens brains are not fully developed enough to always make the right decisions.

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"To Steinberg, this shows clearly that risk-taking rises not from puny thinking but from a higher regard for reward." (para.35)

This research tells me that teens are not able to see the consequences of their actions because they are only looking forward to the rewards that are in store for them. This connects back to the question because the connection the author makes proves that children and teens are not mentally developed enough to see the risks that come with committing these serious crimes. It is only in due time do these teens develop the ability to process what is right and wrong when their brains develop and unlock the ability to outweigh the risks with the reward.

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"Teens take more risks not because they don't understand the dangers but because they weigh risk versus reward differently" (para. 32).

This quote answers the question because the decisions that teens make are different from what an adult would do. They behave the way that they do because their minds are not fully developed yet. Teens who commit serious crimes know the consequences of their actions but are more interested in the reward of it even if it is risky.

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"When this development proceeds normally, we get better at balancing impulse, desire, goals, self-interest, rules, ethics, and even altruism." (para. 15)

I think it answers the question by obviously implying that our brain is still developing during our puberty.  It shows that before fully developing, we might not able to balance our impulse. In other words, it says teens are not able to control their emotions and commit a crime due to immature brain. Therefore, some teens might have simple thinking based on their feelings then committing a crime , and they are out of control and do not think what are the following consequences they might have to endure. So I don't think the judicial system should try them as adults who have a complicated thinking with full experiences.

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"Compared with adults, teens tended to make less use of brain regions that monitor performance, spot errors, plan, and stay focused-areas the adults seemed to bring online automatically." (para. 17)

Teens act impulsively unlike adults who carefully think about their decisions. Research shows that specific parts of the brain has it's own time and way of development, so teens brain development takes a longer time to mature. That impacts how they irrationally do thing. The criminal justice system should consider the fact that they are different than adults and act on their behavior that does not think about the consequences beforehand of committing a crime or any reckless behavior.

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"Also peaking during adolescence (and perhaps aggrieving the anciently the most) is risk-taking. We court risk more avidly as teens than at any other time." [paragraph 29]

Adolescence is period of time filled with risk-taking and sensation seeking. During this period of their lives, their brains have not fully developed, causing them to do reckless things. At this time of moodiness and impulsive acts, they do not fully understand the consequences of their actions as adults do. With this in mind, I believe that the justice system should consider the fact that teenagers are psychologically different than adults and act on their behavior rather than thinking about the consequences that come after committing a serious crime or acting recklessly.

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