Hannah Wishart

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Name:

Hannah Wishart

Email address:

Hannah.Wishart@sunderland.ac.uk

Department:

Faculty of Business Law & Tourism (6LAW)

Organisation:

University of Sunderland

Address:

University of Sunderland Faculty of Business, Law and Tourism Reg Vardy Building Room 216C Sir Tom Cowie Campus SR6 0DD

Country:

England.

Homepage URL:

https://sunderland.academia.edu/HannahWishart https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/about/staff/law/hannahwishart/

Biography

Expertise:

Youth Justice, Criminal Law, Neurolaw, Developmental immaturity, Murder, Culpability

Job title:

Lecturer in Law

Biography:

I am a criminal lawyer who sits within youth justice, criminal justice, social justice, criminology and neurolaw. My research uses neuroscience and psychology to inform changes in criminal law doctrine and legal practice for developmentally immature children. My main focus is the engagement of these scientific insights with the law to challenge/reform practices and legislation for developmentally immature children that kill. I have published peer-review journal articles and books on the relevancy of neuroscience in youth justice, the abolition of the doctrine of doli incapax and the unfair treatment of developmentally immature children in the English criminal justice system. I am a Committee Member of the International Neuroethics Society. In 2022-23, I was awarded funding by the SLSmore...

Qualifications:

PhD FHEA LLM in Criminal Law LLB

My Latest

Wishart, Hannah/HW and Berryessa, Colleen (2023) Neurolaw in the Courtroom Comparative Perspectives on Vulnerable Defendants. Routledge Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice and Procedure, 1 . Routledge, London. ISBN 9781032362670 (In Press)
Wishart, Hannah/HW and Johnston, Ed (2016) Special Issue on ‘Criminal Responsibility and Neuroscience’. European Journal of Current Legal Studies, 22 (2).
Wishart, Hannah/HW (2016) Young Minds, Old Legal Problems: Can Neuroscience fill the Void? European Journal of Legal Studies, 22 (2).
Wishart, Hannah/HW (2018) Empowering 16 to 17 Year Olds to Vote: What is Wrong With This Picture? Criminal Law & Justice Weekly, 182. pp. 16-18.
Wishart, Hannah/HW (2017) Definition of Substantial Impairment in the New Diminished Responsibility Defence. Criminal Law & Justice Weekly, 181 (1). pp. 269-272.
Wishart, Hannah/HW (2018) Young Minds, Old Legal Problems: Can Neuroscience fill the Void? Young Offenders & The Age of Criminal Responsibility Bill—Promise and Perils. Journal of Criminal Law, 82. pp. 311-320.
Wishart, Hannah/HW (2013) Criminal Culpability, Criminal Attempts and the Erosion of the Choice Theory. Journal of Criminal Law, 77. pp. 78-90.
Wishart, Hannah/HW (2012) Was the Abolition of the Doctrine of Doli Incapax Necessary? United Kingdom Student Law Review, 1 (2). pp. 50-63.
Wishart, Hannah/HW (2017) Mismatched Legal Distinctions, Adolescent Mens Rea and Immaturity. In: Annual British Society of Criminology Conference, Sheffield Hallam University.
Wishart, Hannah/HW (2017) Mismatched Legal Distinctions, Adolescent Mens Rea and Immaturity. In: Annual School of Law PGR Conference, University of Manchester, Manchester.

My Most Viewed

	Item title
1	Young Minds, Old Legal Problems: Can Neuroscience fill the Void?	37	14
2	Definition of Substantial Impairment in the New Diminished Responsibility Defence	37	1
3	Was the Abolition of the Doctrine of Doli Incapax Necessary?	36	3
4	Young Minds, Old Legal Problems: Can Neuroscience fill the Void? Young Offenders & The Age of Criminal Responsibility Bill—Promise and Perils	34	0
5	Criminal Culpability, Criminal Attempts and the Erosion of the Choice Theory	31	3
6	Empowering 16 to 17 Year Olds to Vote: What is Wrong With This Picture?	28	1
7	Taking Legal Assumptions about the Responsibility of Adolescents Seriously	26	0
8	Neuroscience, Culpability and the Status of the Adolescent Offender	25	0
9	Special Issue on ‘Criminal Responsibility and Neuroscience’	25	0
10	Mismatched Legal Distinctions, Adolescent Mens Rea and Immaturity	24	0

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