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The behavioral syndrome called hyperactivity is not outgrown in adolescence. Though excess activity becomes less prominent, emotional immaturity and academic underachievement develop into primary complaints. Antisocial behavior emerges as a serious problem in young adolescents. In late adolescence and early adulthood, many of these individuals apparently improve as they adjust to employment. There is some evidence that older adolescents display no more psychiatric disease or serious delinquency than matched controls. Those adolescents with persistent problems continue to respond favorably to stimulant medication, though often they resist pharmacologic treatment. The clinician is urged to advise patience and supportive tolerance in response to the persisting problems of the adolescent.
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PMID:Hyperactivity in adolescence. 635 29

Consistent with core principles of liberal theories of punishment (including humane treatment of offenders, respecting offender rights, parsimony, penal proportionality, and rehabilitation), progressive frameworks have sought to expand doctrines of mitigation and excuse in order to reduce culpability and punishment. With respect to juvenile justice, scholars have proposed that doctrinal mitigation be broadened, and that adolescents, due to aspects of developmental immaturity (such as decision-making capacity), be punished less severely than adults who commit the same crimes. One model of adolescent antisocial behavior that may be useful to a progressive theory of punishment in juvenile justice distinguishes between instrumental violence, by which the actor behaves thoughtfully and calmly to achieve personal gain, and reactive violence, which is characterized as impulsive, emotional retaliation toward a perceived threat or injustice. In particular, social cognitive differences between instrumental and reactive violence have implications for responsibility, length and structure of incarceration, rehabilitation, and other issues that are central to a progressive theory of juvenile culpability and punishment.
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PMID:Social information processing, subtypes of violence, and a progressive construction of culpability and punishment in juvenile justice. 1832 14