A report issued by the Criminal Justice and the Committee of the British House of Commons on the need for a different way to deal with criminals who are under the age of 30 years, given that their brains are not yet fully mature.
The experts pointed out that people who are under the age of 30 years as their brains are still in the stage of maturity of the most sophisticated operations such as decision-making and risk-taking and the brain begins only stable in the fourth decade.
The report that the criminals who are between the ages of 18 and 25 should be dealt with a different way of criminals as adults get older because their brains are not yet mature.
The report was issued following a growing demand in England and Wales to grant the right to vote for those who have attained 16 years of age.
Dr. Somerville, who co-authored the report, said he was "looking at the possibility of the individual to be diagnosed or ruled whether the brain of someone else's ripe or not the age considerations, educational level, a far cry from that assessment." He added that while there are a lot of theories that proving that teenagers behave differently from adults, there is no specific age separates adults from adolescents, but separates binge engage in "mental maturity threshold."
He continued Dr. Somerville say that "there is no indication upon arrival can neuroscientist to say that the brain has evolved completely" because the brain continually evolving, "and continues to develop effectively, even after reaching the age of eighteen, as the brain develops in the form of" waves "is going through each area of the brain articulated a period of evolution at a different time, "which makes the maturation of the brain varies from one region to another and from time to time in the life of the individual.
Somerville pointed out that, given the controversy over access to the definitive guide to measure the maturation of the brain it is like there is no specific age refers to the entry of the brain full maturity.
The brain contains two types of tissue, namely gray matter and white matter, and in the first decade of life, the gray matter expands rapidly to form the nerve tangles in the brain by learning new skills during childhood, and with the willingness of the body of puberty, the brain starts to the mitigation of the gray matter of the so-called "pruning of gray matter" in some locations and replace white rule making more efficient the mind where these changes allow the transfer of information better, faster, and continue shrinking gray matter and replace white rule.
And because the brain does not stop changing the mind the mature fully before the age of 30 is considered problematic because the mind is still in the stage of maturity of the operations of the most sophisticated, such as decision-making and impulse control and logical thinking and thinking organizer and personal development, risk management, etc., and thus can not be seen from the aged between the ages of 18 and 25 years are people "mature" enough.