Empowering the Innocent Magazine

Empowering the Innocent Magazine: Giving voice to alleged innocent victims of wrongful convictions.

#1 planned for Spring 2020 – watch this space!

Key Publications

Books:

Naughton, M. (2013) ‘The Innocent and the Criminal Justice System: A Sociological Analysis of Miscarriages of Justice’. Palgrave Macmillan.

Naughton, M. (2012 [2007]) ‘Rethinking Miscarriages of Justice: Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg’. Palgrave Macmillan.

Naughton, M. (2012 [2009]) (Editor) ‘The Criminal Cases Review Commission: Hope for the Innocent?’. Palgrave Macmillan.

Naughton, M. (2010) ‘Claims of Innocence: An introduction to wrongful convictions and how they might be challenged’. University of Bristol (with Tan, G.).

Most recent publications:

Naughton, M. (2020) (In Press) ‘Why do university students in the UK buy assignments from essay mills?’ Critical Education. (Forthcoming).

Naughton, M. (2020) ‘Has anyone at the CCRC got the time, please?’ The Justice Gap. 27 January. Click here for the article.

Naughton, M. (2019) (The Westminster Commission inquiry on the ability of the Criminal Cases Review Commission to deal effectively with miscarriages of justice) ‘Please forgive me, but I won’t be holding my breath.’ The Justice Gap. 6 September. Click here for the article.

Naughton, M. (2019) ‘Rethinking the competing discourses on uncorroborated allegations of child sexual abuse.’ The British Journal of Criminology. 59(2): 461–480.

Naughton, M. (2018) ‘Foreword’ in Diskin Bates, Michelle (2018) Stand Against Injustice: The untold story of the family of Barry George, wrongly convicted for the murder of Jill Dando. Malcolm Down Publishing Ltd. Click here for more information on the book and here for Michael’s Foreword.

Work in progress:

Article on the methodological limitations of research on alleged false allegations of child sexual abuse
Article on speaking the truth of wrongful convictions to power
Book on wrongful convictions