International Perspectives of Neuroscience in the Youth Justice Courtroom

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.

• 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