But it also matters that the perpetrator doesn't have a mature frontal lobe which is in exchange marinated in that lovely testosterony cocktail of puberty.
It might be easy for me to say because my kids are far from their teens, but well...It's a major parental issue.
A nineteen year old male can vote, drive a car, join the army and - in war - is allowed to legally kill people.
And, in the US, a 19 year old is probably allowed to legally buy and carry (and use) a gun.
And, in my country, enter a pub (though not now, due to Covid restrictions), and purchase and consume alcohol legally.
All adult stuff, stuff that they are allowed - as a right - to do, a right nobody questions, let alone by proffering the argument that one's frontal love is insufficiently developed which might serve to deny them access to the nice airport lounge full of comfortable sofas, of adult privileges.
And all of this while lacking "a mature frontal lobe...due to testosterony cocktail of puberty."
Yes, of course, people of both sexes (especially males) aren't probably fully mature until they are in their mid to late twenties.
However, to my mind, while the "immature" argument works with small children, whose transgressions can be excused and explained away, and who can be encouraged and persuaded, and/or bribed and taught to do things differently, with adults, things are a bit different.
But, you know, adult privileges (and rights) do come complete with adult responsibilities, and they include, "control yourself, your temper, your urges, your emotions", and "think of others", "think before you act", and "take responsibilities for your actions, i.e. own what you do".
But - as a woman - I do tire of men explaining away, or excusing, or somehow seeking to offer mitigating circumstances (his age, his social class, his possibly wrecked but promising future, his "upstanding character", his immature frontal lobe), while explaining away egregious or appalling or monstrously entitled male behaviour, focussing sympathetically on his future, the ghastly inconvenience that this - possible conviction - will be for him, while disregarding or dismissing, or shrugging away as not-quite-as-important (almost entirely) the effects this may have had (on the life chances, future career, confidence, self-belief, health) of the yes, underage victim.
I remember reading about (and following) the Brock Turner case with, yes, a real rage.