New York Times article by Tom Grisso: Don’t Treat Young Adults as Teenagers
Date Posted: Thursday, May 12, 2016A New York Times op-ed by Thomas Grisso, PhD, emeritus professor of psychiatry and former director of the Law and Psychiatry Program, about raising the age of juvenile court jurisdiction from 18 to 21 cautions that research into the maturity of young adults is still at an early stage and it is not clear that the brains of 20-year-olds are so immature that they should be treated as if they are teenagers.
