Event Description
Join the Schubert Center for Child Studies for this year's Kessler Freedheim Lecture, featuring Laurence Steinberg, a Distinguished University Professor, and Laura H. Carnell, professor of psychology and neuroscience at Temple University, for an informative talk at Tinkham Veale University Center (TVUC) Ballroom A.
Major findings in developmental neuroscience over the past couple of decades have shed new light on our understanding of adolescence. In particular, the prefrontal cortex part of the teen brain, which controls executive function and its connectivity with the limbic system, is still developing through late adolescence and into young adulthood. Steinberg, an expert in adolescent development, will discuss how these developmental characteristics of adolescence make teens different from and less culpable than adults in the criminal justice system. He will also explore how this research has led to transformative change in the U.S. legal system and juvenile justice policy over the past 20 years, as well as implications for future youth justice reform efforts.
Steinberg will be joined by discussants, Amy L. Ast, director of the Ohio Department of Youth Services, and Brooke Burns, chief counsel of the Youth Defense Department in the Office of the Ohio Public Defender.
Refreshments will be provided.
Event Location
Tinkham Veale University Center | Ballroom A
11038 Bellflower Road
Cleveland, OH 44106
