Skip to content But the person at the center of that symbol is still, in so many ways, unfinished. Neuroscience insists on what our instincts resist: teenagers are not yet who they will be. Their worst decisions are made with incomplete tools. Justice that ignores this risks becoming ritualized despair, a performance of safety rather than its reality. The harder, braver work is imagining accountability that does not erase the possibility of change—justice that can hold grief and hope in the same trembling hand.