Free standard shipping on all orders
  • Visa
  • Master Card
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • JCB

Neurolaw in the Courtroom: Comparative Perspectives on Vulnerable Defendants book cover

1st Edition

Neurolaw in the Courtroom Comparative Perspectives on Vulnerable Defendants

Edited By Hannah Wishart, Colleen M. Berryessa Copyright 2024
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
This collection presents a comparative perspective on interdisciplinary issues that fall under the emerging field of Neurolaw. The chapters embrace distinct procedural and evidential issues in the courtroom for vulnerable defendants, such as immature defendants, mentally disordered offenders and unfit-to-plead defendants, through a neuroscientific lens. This view is informed by worldwide analyses... Read more

List of contributors

Table of statutes

Table of cases

Table of abbreviations

Introduction

 

1 Vulnerable Defendants and Neuroscience in Courtrooms Worldwide

Deborah W. Denno

2 Offering Neurotechnology to Defendants: On Vulnerability, Voluntariness, and Consent

Sjors Ligthart and Gerben Meynen

3 Vulnerable Defendants: Redefining Decision-Making through the Lenses of Neuroscience,

Law and Artificial Intelligence

Amedeo Santosuosso and Matilde Giustiniani

4 Safeguarding the Procedural Rights of Young Defendants in England and Wales: The Role of

Neuroscience

Amy Sixsmith

5 Criminal Insanity in Norwegian Law between Care and Societal Protection

Sofia Moratti

6 Social Vulnerability on Trial: The Role of the Neuroscience of Trauma in Recognising Severe

Social Adversity in Sentencing

Federica Coppola

 

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Hannah Wishart is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Sunderland and a PhD Candidate at the School of Law, University of Manchester.

Colleen M. Berryessa is an Assistant Professor at the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice.

Add to Cart