Neurolaw in the Courtroom (eBook, ePUB)

Comparative Perspectives on Vulnerable Defendants
Redaktion: Wishart, Hannah; Berryessa, Colleen M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This work brings together interdisciplinary and leading perspectives to discuss the use and relevancy of neuroscience at trial, and how it is currently benefiting and impacting vulnerable defendants, such as immature defendants, mentally disordered offenders and unfit to plead defendants, in global criminal trials.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003821465
• Artikelnr.: 69058765

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Vulnerable defendants and neuroscience in courtrooms worldwide; 2. Offering neurotechnology to defendants: On vulnerability, voluntariness, and consent; 3. Vulnerable defendants: Redefining decision-making through the lenses of neuroscience, law and artificial intelligence; 4. Safeguarding the procedural rights of young defendants in England and Wales: The role of neuroscience; 5. Criminal insanity in Norwegian law between care and societal protection; 6. Social vulnerability on trial: The role of the neuroscience of trauma in recognising severe social adversity in sentencing