Nessa Lynch
Biographic Data
| ID | 6549231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nessa Lynch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nessa |
| FAMILY NAME | Lynch |
| SIGNATURE | LYNCH N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, [email protected] |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4707-2514 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Watching justice from afar
Children in criminal justice systems are inherently vulnerable, yet digitalisation of court proceedings is accelerating without adequate consideration of their human rights. This research examines how remote hearings impacts children’s human rights in four European jurisdictions. Drawing upon interviews and surveys with children and justice professionals across Romania, Ireland, Spain, and Ukraine, we find that remote hearings systematically disa…
Children and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
This article highlights the urgent need to consider children’s human rights in the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) at global, regional and domestic levels. It emphasises the importance of raising awareness about how AI impacts children and their rights. AI is increasingly integrated into children’s daily activities, from learning and playing to interacting with state services like healthcare, social welfare and criminal justice. There …
“Atlanta Is Like Wakanda … but With Real Big, Big Issues”
Tailored interventions recognizing community strengths and addressing specific health issues are crucial for improving outcomes in marginalized communities, necessitating a health-in-all policies approach considering social, cultural, and structural determinants of health
The Cambridge Handbook of Facial Recognition in the Modern State
In situations ranging from border control to policing and welfare, governments are using automated facial recognition technology (FRT) to collect taxes, prevent crime, police cities and control immigration. FRT involves the processing of a person's facial image, usually for identification, categorisation or counting. This ambitious handbook brings together a diverse group of legal, computer, communications, and social and political science schola…
Beyond the Life Sentence – A Children’s Rights Lens on Sentencing for Murder
Children around the world who have been found responsible for murder continue to be sentenced to indeterminate or long periods of detention. This is in contravention of children’s rights standards which urge a ban on the life sentence and require that detention is used only for the shortest appropriate period of time. Nonetheless, the public and victims of crime have a legitimate interest in the protection of public safety and appropriate account…
Zooming In” on Children’s Rights During a Pandemic
The implementation of public health measures in response to the covid -19 pandemic has impacted heavily on the operation of child justice systems and places of detention, creating new challenges in the safeguarding and implementation of children’s rights. Yet, it has also been a time of innovation, particularly in the use of technology. Using case studies from Ireland and Aotearoa New Zealand, we discuss how technology has been used to maintain t…
What is Left in the “Too Hard Basket”? Developments and Challenges for the Rights of Children in Conflict with the Law
The 30 years since the enactment of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has seen extensive developments in the theory and practice of children’s rights. Children’s rights are now an established academic discipline with the study of children in conflict with the law being a fundamental area of analysis. This paper takes the approach of highlighting three areas of development of children’s rights scholarship in relation to the …
The Age of Culpability
The Other Child” – The Rights of the Child Victim in the Youth Justice System
Children’s rights scholarship and guidance from human rights bodies has largely ignored the child victim, particularly where the perpetrator of the offence is also a child. This article reviews how provisions of international children’s rights standards deal with such situations, and highlights the lack of evidence on the extent of such victimisation and the experiences of child victims. Using two particular provisions (best interests and partici…
Playing catch-up? Recent reform of New Zealand’s youth justice system
The New Zealand youth justice system emerged as a ‘new paradigm’ in the early 1990s. This model of reintegration, restorativeness, diversion and family empowerment has been highly influential worldwide. The New Zealand system has remained stable and non-punitive in the context of a volatile and punitive adult criminal justice system and the ‘punitive turn’ in the youth justice systems of similar jurisdictions. Significant reforms have been made t…
Restorative Justice through a Children's Rights Lens
Restorative justice is an alternative to the formal criminal justice system which focuses on repairing the harm caused to the victim of the offence, effecting reconciliation between victim and offender, and the re-integration of the offender. Its use is widespread in national youth justice systems. This article will analyse the use of restorative justice in connection with offending by children. It will be argued that despite evidence of endorsem…
Respecting Legal Rights in the New Zealand Youth Justice Family Group Conference
Family group conferencing was first introduced in New Zealand in 1989, and is an increasingly popular response to offending by youth. Broadly similar models are in use in some Australian States, as well as in Europe. The youth justice family group conference is used in New Zealand principally as a diversionary measure and as a sentencing aid for youth court judges, thus delegating a large measure of power over responses to offending by young peop…
What is Left in the “Too Hard Basket”? Developments and Challenges for the Rights of Children in Conflict with the Law
The 30 years since the enactment of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has seen extensive developments in the theory and practice of children’s rights. Children’s rights are now an established academic discipline with the study of children in conflict with the law being a fundamental area of analysis. This paper takes the approach of highlighting three areas of development of children’s rights scholarship in relation to the …
Restorative Justice through a Children's Rights Lens
Restorative justice is an alternative to the formal criminal justice system which focuses on repairing the harm caused to the victim of the offence, effecting reconciliation between victim and offender, and the re-integration of the offender. Its use is widespread in national youth justice systems. This article will analyse the use of restorative justice in connection with offending by children. It will be argued that despite evidence of endorsem…
Beyond the Life Sentence – A Children’s Rights Lens on Sentencing for Murder
Children around the world who have been found responsible for murder continue to be sentenced to indeterminate or long periods of detention. This is in contravention of children’s rights standards which urge a ban on the life sentence and require that detention is used only for the shortest appropriate period of time. Nonetheless, the public and victims of crime have a legitimate interest in the protection of public safety and appropriate account…
Zooming In” on Children’s Rights During a Pandemic
The implementation of public health measures in response to the covid -19 pandemic has impacted heavily on the operation of child justice systems and places of detention, creating new challenges in the safeguarding and implementation of children’s rights. Yet, it has also been a time of innovation, particularly in the use of technology. Using case studies from Ireland and Aotearoa New Zealand, we discuss how technology has been used to maintain t…
The Other Child” – The Rights of the Child Victim in the Youth Justice System
Children’s rights scholarship and guidance from human rights bodies has largely ignored the child victim, particularly where the perpetrator of the offence is also a child. This article reviews how provisions of international children’s rights standards deal with such situations, and highlights the lack of evidence on the extent of such victimisation and the experiences of child victims. Using two particular provisions (best interests and partici…
Playing catch-up? Recent reform of New Zealand’s youth justice system
The New Zealand youth justice system emerged as a ‘new paradigm’ in the early 1990s. This model of reintegration, restorativeness, diversion and family empowerment has been highly influential worldwide. The New Zealand system has remained stable and non-punitive in the context of a volatile and punitive adult criminal justice system and the ‘punitive turn’ in the youth justice systems of similar jurisdictions. Significant reforms have been made t…
Respecting Legal Rights in the New Zealand Youth Justice Family Group Conference
Family group conferencing was first introduced in New Zealand in 1989, and is an increasingly popular response to offending by youth. Broadly similar models are in use in some Australian States, as well as in Europe. The youth justice family group conference is used in New Zealand principally as a diversionary measure and as a sentencing aid for youth court judges, thus delegating a large measure of power over responses to offending by young peop…
Restorative Justice through a Children's Rights Lens
Restorative justice is an alternative to the formal criminal justice system which focuses on repairing the harm caused to the victim of the offence, effecting reconciliation between victim and offender, and the re-integration of the offender. Its use is widespread in national youth justice systems. This article will analyse the use of restorative justice in connection with offending by children. It will be argued that despite evidence of endorsem…
Playing catch-up? Recent reform of New Zealand’s youth justice system
The New Zealand youth justice system emerged as a ‘new paradigm’ in the early 1990s. This model of reintegration, restorativeness, diversion and family empowerment has been highly influential worldwide. The New Zealand system has remained stable and non-punitive in the context of a volatile and punitive adult criminal justice system and the ‘punitive turn’ in the youth justice systems of similar jurisdictions. Significant reforms have been made t…
The Age of Culpability
The Other Child” – The Rights of the Child Victim in the Youth Justice System
Children’s rights scholarship and guidance from human rights bodies has largely ignored the child victim, particularly where the perpetrator of the offence is also a child. This article reviews how provisions of international children’s rights standards deal with such situations, and highlights the lack of evidence on the extent of such victimisation and the experiences of child victims. Using two particular provisions (best interests and partici…
What is Left in the “Too Hard Basket”? Developments and Challenges for the Rights of Children in Conflict with the Law
The 30 years since the enactment of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has seen extensive developments in the theory and practice of children’s rights. Children’s rights are now an established academic discipline with the study of children in conflict with the law being a fundamental area of analysis. This paper takes the approach of highlighting three areas of development of children’s rights scholarship in relation to the …
Beyond the Life Sentence – A Children’s Rights Lens on Sentencing for Murder
Children around the world who have been found responsible for murder continue to be sentenced to indeterminate or long periods of detention. This is in contravention of children’s rights standards which urge a ban on the life sentence and require that detention is used only for the shortest appropriate period of time. Nonetheless, the public and victims of crime have a legitimate interest in the protection of public safety and appropriate account…
Zooming In” on Children’s Rights During a Pandemic
The implementation of public health measures in response to the covid -19 pandemic has impacted heavily on the operation of child justice systems and places of detention, creating new challenges in the safeguarding and implementation of children’s rights. Yet, it has also been a time of innovation, particularly in the use of technology. Using case studies from Ireland and Aotearoa New Zealand, we discuss how technology has been used to maintain t…
The Cambridge Handbook of Facial Recognition in the Modern State
In situations ranging from border control to policing and welfare, governments are using automated facial recognition technology (FRT) to collect taxes, prevent crime, police cities and control immigration. FRT involves the processing of a person's facial image, usually for identification, categorisation or counting. This ambitious handbook brings together a diverse group of legal, computer, communications, and social and political science schola…
“Atlanta Is Like Wakanda … but With Real Big, Big Issues”
Tailored interventions recognizing community strengths and addressing specific health issues are crucial for improving outcomes in marginalized communities, necessitating a health-in-all policies approach considering social, cultural, and structural determinants of health
Watching justice from afar
Children in criminal justice systems are inherently vulnerable, yet digitalisation of court proceedings is accelerating without adequate consideration of their human rights. This research examines how remote hearings impacts children’s human rights in four European jurisdictions. Drawing upon interviews and surveys with children and justice professionals across Romania, Ireland, Spain, and Ukraine, we find that remote hearings systematically disa…
Children and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
This article highlights the urgent need to consider children’s human rights in the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) at global, regional and domestic levels. It emphasises the importance of raising awareness about how AI impacts children and their rights. AI is increasingly integrated into children’s daily activities, from learning and playing to interacting with state services like healthcare, social welfare and criminal justice. There …
Political science (9 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economic Justice (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (5 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (4 works)