Policing the Teen Brain

The amazing teen brain.

Science suggests ways to promote growth while preventing disaster Behold the American teenager, a lump in a hoodie who's capable of little more than playing "Grand Theft Auto," raiding the liquor cabinet, and denting the minivan, thanks to a brain so unformed that it's more like a kindergartner's than a grown-up's. That's the message that seemed to emerge from the past decade's neuroscientific ...

The teen brain: insights from neuroimaging.

Few parents of a teenager are surprised to hear that the brain of a 16-year-old is different from the brain of an 8-year-old. Yet to pin down these differences in a rigorous scientific way has been elusive. Magnetic resonance imaging, with the capacity to provide exquisitely accurate quantifications of brain anatomy and physiology without the use of ionizing radiation, has launched a new era of...

POLICING THE CRISIS 30 YEARS ON Still Policing the Crisis?

Writing this has been a troubling experience. Returning to a text 30 years on in this way combines intellectual, political and personal refl ections in an unsettling way. These range from a powerful attachment to processes of collective or collaborative intellectual work that Policing the Crisis (PTC; Hall et al., 1978) embodied and enhanced to a rather depressed sense of how many things the bo...

Cpc : Crime , Policing & Citizenship Intelligent Policing

The New Policing

This article explores new forms of policing in New York, Chicago, and Boston. These cities developed new policing strategies that each involves a different combination of problem solving and new forms of “community policing”. The article explores whether these developments resulted in crime reduction and changes in belief in the efficacy of policing. The article concludes by considering the cos...