States rethink 'adult time for adult crime' - the Youth Advocacy Division

astonishing our machines may become, they cannot tell us how to answer these
perplexing questions. We must instead look to our own powers of reasoning and
intuition, relatively primitive as they may be. As Stephen Morse puts it,
neuroscience itself can never identify the mysterious point at which people
should be excused from responsibility for their actions because they are not able,
in some sense, to control themselves. That question, he suggests, is “moral and
ultimately legal,” and it must be answered not in laboratories but in courtrooms
and legislatures. In other words, we must answer it ourselves.
Jeffrey Rosen, a frequent contributor, is the author most recently of “The
Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America.”