Neurodisability and the criminal justice system : comparative and therapeutic responses /: comparative and therapeutic responses. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gaye T. Lansdell, Bernadette J. Saunders, Anna Eriksson.
• Editors: Lansdell, Gaye T; Saunders, Bernadette J; Eriksson, Anna
• Contents: Contents: Foreword xi PART I UNDERSTANDING AND RESPONDING TO NEURODISABILITY 1 Neurodisability and the criminal justice system: a problem in search of a solution 3 Gaye Lansdell, Bernadette Saunders, Anna Eriksson 2 Neurodisability: A criminal law doctrine that is not pure insanity 14 Amanda Pustilnik 3 A public law model for cognitive-communication risk 34 Joe Wszalek 4 Access to justice and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) – an Australian perspective 51 Penelope Weller PART II NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE WITH NEURODISABILITY 5 Dismantling barriers to justice for children affected by neurodisability 73 Frances Sheahan, Nathan Hughes, Huw Williams, Prathiba Chitsabesan 6 Neurodisability and trauma in children and young people in contact with the law 92 Huw Williams, Leigh Schrieff, Nathan Hughes, James Tonks, Prathiba Chitsabesan, Hope Kent 7 Protecting vulnerable child defendants in England and Wales: a house of cards? 111 Shauneen Lambe and Kathryn Hollingsworth 8 Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and the criminal justice system 136 Hayley Passmore and Sharynne Hamilton PART III RESPONSES TO NEURODISABILITY WITHIN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM 9 What do lawyers really know about neurodisability? Confusion, obfuscation and dereliction of duty 154 Gaye Lansdell, Bernadette Saunders, Anna Eriksson, Rebecca Bunn 10 Towards dignity: better court pathways for people with lived experience of acquired brain injury 177 Magistrate Pauline Spencer 11 Neurodisability and the 'revolving' prison door: an international problem viewed through an Australian lens 196 Anna Eriksson, Bernadette Saunders, Gaye Lansdell 12 An interdisciplinary call for action 214 Bernadette Saunders, Anna Eriksson, Gaye Lansdell Index.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 345.04; Criminal liability; Developmentally disabled; Criminal justice, Administration of
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789907636
• Related ISBNs: 9781789907629
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