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International Perspectives of Neuroscience in the Youth Justice Courtroom

International Perspectives of Neuroscience in the Youth Justice Courtroom

Author: Hannah Wishart; Ray Arthur
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032571133
Published In: March 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This collection presents international viewpoints on interdisciplinary problems that fall under the new and emerging field of neurojustice. The chapters critically explore a wide range of legal problems in youth justice for children and young persons through a neuroscientific lens. This comparative view is informed by analyses from academics and legal practitioners based in England and Wales, Ireland, the United States, and New Zealand. The work brings together a range of perspectives to discuss the use and relevance of neuroscience in the youth justice courtroom, and how neuroscience is currently benefiting and impacting children and young persons in international youth justice trials.

The book makes a valuable contribution to the existing literature in this field by offering a thorough examination of the intersection between these disciplines for children and young individuals at different stages of the trial process, including unfitness to plead, sentencing, and mens rea. It will appeal to students, academics and practitioners worldwide working in the areas of Criminal Law, Neurolaw, Neuroethics, Juvenile Law, and Comparative Law.

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Preface

1. Children’s Rights and the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child: Relevancy of Neuroscience in UK Youth Justice, Ray Arthur, Hannah Wishart

2. Outlining the relationship between the English youth justice system and the developmental neurobiology of the human brain

Hannah Wishart, Ray Arthur, Thomas Butts

3. Seen and Not Heard’: In Defence of Children, Neuroscience and Effective Participation at Trial

Helen Howard and Hannah Wishart

4. Promising steps in Aotearoa New Zealand criminal law to recognise neurodiversity

Mark Henaghan and Jean Choi

5. A Development-Informed Concept of Adolescent Mens Rea

Jenny E. Carroll

6. Neuroscience-informed Sentencing of Children in England and Wales

Laura Janes

7. Reimagining Youth Justice – the Irish Experience of Sentencing Young Offenders

John O’Connor and Geoffrey Shannon