Neurolaw in the Courtroom - Comparative Perspectives on Vulnerable Defendants

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Hannah Berryessa Wishart
• Assisted by: Colleen M. Berryessa (Editor), Hannah Wishart (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032362700
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3236270-0
• No. of pages: 118
• Series: Routledge Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice and Procedure
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Sociology, LAW / Criminal Law / General, LAW / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / Criminal Procedure, LAW / Courts, Legal aspects of criminology, Disability: social aspects, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminal justice law, Criminology: legal aspects