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1. According to "Less Capable Brain, Less Culpable Teen?" (2010), the brain of an adolescent is different from an adult brain due to the pre-frontal cortex in not fully developed during the adolescence year. Without a mature pre-frontal cotrex, the brain is unable to make proper judgments; therefore, adolescents could make decsions that an adult would not make. In the article it was noted that adolescents use their amygdala to make a "gut feeling" decsion, while adults use their frontal lobe to make a more thought out decision (Burillo, 2010). 2. After reading the article and the assigned reading, I think that brain development should be put in consideration when assessing juveniles that have broken the law. Since the brain is not fully developed

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