International Perspectives of Neuroscience in the Youth Justice Courtroom

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-57113-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice and Procedure

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wishart, Hannah

Arthur, Ray

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Strafverfahrens- und -prozessrecht, Strafverteidigung und Opferschutz
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Jugendstrafrecht, Jugenstrafvollzugsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Allgemeines Verfahrens-, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht Allgemeines Prozessrecht, Kostenrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors;  Table of Statutes;  Table of Cases;  Abbreviations;  Preface;  1. Children’s Rights and the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child: Relevancy of Neuroscience in UK Youth Justice;  2. Outlining the relationship between the English youth justice system and the developmental neurobiology of the human brain;  3. 'Seen and Not Heard’: In Defence of Children, Neuroscience and Effective Participation at Trial;  4. Promising steps in Aotearoa New Zealand criminal law to recognise neurodiversity;  5. A Development-Informed Concept of Adolescent Mens Rea;  6. Neuroscience-informed Sentencing of Children in England and Wales;  7. Reimagining Youth Justice – the Irish Experience of Sentencing Young Offenders;  8. Examining the role of neuroscience in youth sentencing in U.S. states and territories

Über Autor(innen)

Hannah Wishart is a lecturer in law and Programme Leader of the LLB at the University of Sunderland. She is an associate member of the Alliance for Youth Justice and a committee member of the Committee for International Neuroethics Society.

Ray Arthur is Professor of Law at Northumbria University and specialises in researching children’s right to self-determination in justice settings and developing a broader understanding of the experiences of troubled and vulnerable young people.