Laurence Steinberg
Laurence Steinberg is an American psychologist and author specializing
in adolescence. Much of his research and writing concerns the
implications of research on brain development for how teenagers and
young adults are treated under the law. His work was cited by the U.S.
Supreme Court in its decisions to abolish the juvenile death penalty
and to limit the use of life without parole as a sentence for
juveniles. He is the author of more than 350 scholarly articles on
adolescence as well as more than a dozen books, including the leading
college textbook on the subject. He is a Fellow of the American
Psychological Association , the Association for Psychological Science,
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He joined the faculty of
Temple University, in Philadelphia, in 1988.