1st Edition
International Perspectives of Neuroscience in the Youth Justice Courtroom
List of contributors
Table of Statutes
Table of Cases
List of Abbreviations
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 and Hannah Wishart
2. Outlining the relationship between the English youth justice system and the developmental neurobiology of the human brain
Hannah Wishart, Ray Arthur, and 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
8. Examining the role of neuroscience in youth sentencing in U.S. states and territories
Victoria Laugalis and Stuti S. Kokkalera
Biography
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.
