Dr Michael Naughton
BSc, PhD (Bristol)
Office: Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol, BS1 1RJ, UK
Telephone: 0117 954 5314 (Secretary and Answerphone)
Email: M.Naughton@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Michael Naughton obtained his BSc (First Class Honours) and PhD from the University of Bristol. He was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology between 2003-2004. A cross-department appointment, he was appointed as Lecturer in June 2004 and Senior Lecturer in August 2008.
Michael teaches undergraduates in the School of Law and the Department of Sociology in the general area of criminal justice and postgraduates in the specific area of miscarriages of justice.
Michael is the Founder and Director of the Innocence Network UK (INUK), the umbrella organisation for member innocence projects in UK universities, and Director of the University of Bristol Innocence Project (UoBIP), the first dedicated innocence project in the UK, through which he coordinates student investigations of cases of alleged wrongful imprisonment.
He welcomes proposals for doctoral supervision within the general area of criminal justice and especially research associated with miscarriages of justice and the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of the innocent.
Research Interests
Michael's research interests cover all aspects of miscarriages of justice and the wrongful conviction of the innocent, including practical attempts to overturn alleged wrongful convictions by innocence projects, criminal appeals and the Criminal Cases Review Commission, penal policy, probation and parole, and the post-successful appeal provisions and forms of redress that exist to assist victims. His researches are theoretically informed by a synthesis of Michel Foucault's social theory and the zemiological approach.
Current Teaching
Undergraduate: A Sociology of Crime & Justice (Department of Sociology); Crime, Justice & Society (School of Law).
Postgraduate: Miscarriages of Justice? (offered to LLM, MSc and MA students in the School of Law and MSc students in the Department of Sociology)
Publications
Michael is currently completing a monograph provisionally entitled: Miscarriages of Justice?: Cases, Consequences, Cures. The book is due to be published in 2011 and is contracted with Palgrave Macmillan.
Complete list of Michael's publications
Books
-
Editor: The Criminal Cases Review Commission: Hope for the Innocent?, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), including:
- 'Introduction'
- 'The Importance of Innocence for the Criminal Justice System'
- 'Conclusion'
- Rethinking Miscarriages of Justice: Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters
- 'The Right to Access DNA Testing by Alleged Innocent Victims of Wrongful Convictions in the UK?' International Journal of Evidence & Proof, (with Gabe Tan)--Forthcoming 2010.
- 'Semiotics, Miscarriages of Justice and the Trials of Jesus,' in Rivlin, J (Ed), Studies in Jewish Law in Honour of Bernard S. Jackson, Jewish Law Association Studies XX, Deborah Charles Publications (with Jonathan Burnside)--Forthcoming 2010.
- 'Does the NOMS Risk Assessment Bubble Have to Burst for Prisoners Who May be Innocent to Make Progress?' Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 48 (4): 357-372, 2009.
- 'Factual Innocence versus Legal Guilt: The need for a new pair of spectacles to view the problem of prisoners maintaining innocence' Prison Service Journal, May 2008
- 'Resurrecting a concern for the innocent,' in 100: A collection of words and images to mark the centenary of the University of Bristol, Bristol: University of Bristol, 2008.
- 'Wrongful Convictions and Innocence Projects in the UK: Help, Hope and Education' Web Journal of Current Legal Issues, 3, 2006.
- 'Innocence Projects in the UK: The story so far,' The Law Teacher: The international Journal of Legal Education 40(1), pp. 74-79 (with Carole McCartney), 2006.
- The Innocence Network UK,' Legal Ethics 7(2): 150-154 (with Carole McCartney), 2005.
- 'Miscarriages of justice and the government of the criminal justice system: an alternative perspective on the production and deployment of counter-discourse' Critical Criminology: An International Journal 13: 211-231. 2005.
- 'Redefining miscarriages of justice: a revived human rights approach to unearth subjugated discourses of wrongful criminal conviction' British Journal of Criminology 45(2): 165-182. 2005.
- '”Evidence-based-policy" and the government of the criminal justice system - only if the evidence fits!' Critical Social Policy 25(1): 47-69. 2005.
- 'Why the Failure of the Prison Service and the Parole Board to Acknowledge Wrongful Imprisonment is Untenable' Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 44(1): 1-11. 2005.
- 'Reorientating miscarriages of justice' in Hillyard, P. Pantazis, C. Gordon, D. & Tombs, S. (2004) (Editors) Beyond Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously London: Pluto Press. 2004.
- 'How big is the "iceberg?": A zemiological approach to quantifying miscarriages of justice' Radical Statistics 81: 5-17. 2003.
- 'Wrongful convictions: towards a zemiological analysis of the tradition of criminal justice system reform' Radical Statistics 76: 50-65. 2001.
Other (selected)
- 'Can lawyers put people before law?' Socialist Lawyer, June 2010
- 'Why "safety in law" may fail the innocent - the case of Neil Hurley,' The Guardian, 11 February 2010
- 'Prisoners Maintaining Innocence,' IMB NEWS (Independent Monitoring Board for Prisons), Issue 16, November 2009.
- ‘Students for Justice: The Innocence Network UK, The Guardian, 8 May 2009.
- ‘Justice must be seen to be done: Should a senior figure from the prosecution community really head the Criminal Cases Review Commission?’, The Guardian, 20 November 2008.
- ‘Justice Undone: The families of people wrongly jailed deserve compensation - they often lose their livelihoods and loved ones for years’, The Guardian, June 20 2008.
- 'Confronting an uncomfortable truth: Not all alleged victims of false accusations will be innocent!', FACTion, (pp. 8-12). 2007.
- 'Innocence Projects', ScoLAG: Scottish Legal Action Group, 348. 2006.
- 'Innocence projects: a perfect solution for clinical legal education?', Directions: UK Centre for Legal Education, 13, (with Julie Price). 2006.
- ‘The Parole Board - Discredited?’ Inside Time - The National Monthly Newspaper for Prisoners, 81: 21. 2006.
- ‘The emergence of PPMI: Progressing Prisoners Maintaining Innocence’ The Life Line: By lifers for Lifers at HMP Garth Issue 5, August/September. 2005.
- ‘Convicted by an incompetent court’ The Observer January 13. 2005.
- ‘An innocent objection to reduced sentences’ The Observer September 23. 2004.
- ‘The wrongly imprisoned are still paying for crimes they didn't commit’ The Observer July 31. 2004.
- ‘The parole deal is not a “myth”’ Inside Time: The National Monthly Newspaper for Prisoners 59, May. 2004.
- ‘What price freedom?’ The Observer March 21. 2004.
- ‘Convicted for crimes that never happened’ The Observer October 19. 2003.
- ‘Our shoddy treatment of victims of injustice’ The Observer March 16. 2003.
- ‘The Criminal Justice Bill and the apparent sacrifice of the victims of miscarriages of justice’ Inside Out May. 2003.
- ‘The scales of injustice’ The Observer July 28. 2002.