International Perspectives of Neuroscience in the Youth Justice Courtroom

Hannah Wishart, Ray Arthur

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Routledge
31 March 2025

Criminal or forensic psychology; Criminology: legal aspects; Criminal justice law; Juvenile criminal law

Series: 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.

Edited by: Hannah Wishart, Ray Arthur
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 490g
ISBN: 9781032571133
ISBN 10: 1032571136
Series: Routledge Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice and Procedure
Pages: 158
Publication Date: 31 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.