ENGL 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mental Disorder, Frontal Lobe, Housing Benefit
17 Sep 2016
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Persuasive research outline: children who commit adult crimes. Thesis: juveniles who commit heinous crimes are not fully capable of comprehending the consequences of their actions therefore they should not be held responsible for their own decisions when being tried for their crimes. It is wrong for children who have not reached legal age to be held to adult standards. a. The amygdala, the center of impulsive and aggressive behavior is the center piece of the child brain and is left unchecked by the under developed prefrontal cortex (brower study) Lack of maturity an underdeveloped sense of responsibility and take impetuous and ill-considered actions and decisions. A psychologist, sue foss, testified that until age 15, adolescents are. Not able to pick up cues that adults are, saying an adolescent is more likely to consider a crying child to be deliberately trying to annoy.
