A case involving Anthony whom robbed a store with a group of teenagers. During the robbery, one of them shot and killed the storekeeper. Under state law all were convicted of felony murder regardless of who actually killed the individual. In the article it is said that the teens did not anticipate the outcome I completely disagree if I wanted to go rob a store the first thing I think about are the consequences of my actions and I fall under the age categories of adolescence. Does that make me abnormal, no. You cannot provide solid evidence of what the teenagers were thinking as they were organising the robbery making the neuroscience less viable. They were not forced to commit the robbery each one had the individual choice. Regardless of adolescences or adult, if someone commits a crime they did it of their own accord despite the crime itself. Just because teenagers are biologically developing they can still exert control if this were not the case a lot more crimes would be committed. Anthony fled the scene indicating he was aware of the consequences of his actions.
Teenagers may be prompted to further commit
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They examined the relations among age, antisocial decision-making and psychosocial maturity in a sample of more than 1,000 teenagers and adults, aged between 12 and 48, and found that antisocial decision-making is stronger influenced by psychosocial maturity than by age (Figure 3).
They also found that the steepest inflection point is between the age of 16 and 19 which is especially relevant to debates about teenage