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Roper v. Simmons (2005)

US Supreme Court decision prohibiting capital punishment for offenders who were under 18 at the time of their crime, resting in part on aggregate developmental-neuroscience findings about adolescent prefrontal cortex maturity.

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Diminished responsibilityMiller v. Alabama (2012)Atkins v. Virginia (2002)Battered-woman syndrome (BWS)BNS § 22BSA § 39CJA 2009 § 52Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)Lockett v. Ohio (1978)MacArthur Law and Neuroscience ProjectNeurolawPrefrontal cortex (PFC)

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