Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- The aim of the book -- Theoretical lens -- The structure of the book -- 1 What is a Miscarriage of Justice? -- Introduction -- Popular discourses and what the criminal justice system actually delivers -- What, precisely, is a miscarriage of justice? -- Public and political discourses -- Miscarriages of justice from the perspective of the criminal justice system -- Governmentality and the birth of due process -- Governing government -- Conclusion -- 2 The Official Miscarriage of Justice Iceberg -- Introduction -- Towards a typology of miscarriages of justice -- Exceptional miscarriages of justice -- Routine miscarriages of justice -- Mundane miscarriages of justice -- Methodological issues -- A critical pragmatist approach to the inclusion of all successful appeals -- Conclusion -- 3 Causation: Beyond the Official Miscarriage of Justice Iceberg -- Introduction -- Theoretical perspectives -- The focus on individual causes -- Methodological approaches -- Procedural causes -- Conclusion -- 4 Government -- Introduction -- The governmentality of the criminal justice system -- The establishment of the Court of Criminal Appeal -- The abolition of capital punishment -- The introduction of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (1984) -- The establishment of the Criminal Cases Review Commission -- Power, knowledge and resistance -- The limits of the existing governmental voice -- Conclusion -- 5 Campaigns -- Introduction -- Campaigning organisations: diversity and complementarity -- Campaigning organisations and governmentality - observing the observers -- Why the focus on exceptional cases? -- The production of the raw material for governmentality -- Achievements and limitations -- Conclusion -- 6 Academia -- Introduction -- The academic response.

Criminal Justice in Crisis and the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice -- Governmentality and changes to the criminal justice system -- Conclusion -- 7 Human Rights -- Introduction -- Existing invocations of the Human Rights Act (1998) -- The unlawfulness of the current scale of successful appeals against criminal convictions? -- Conclusion -- 8 Zemiology -- Introduction -- Conceptual and methodological issues -- The wider harms of miscarriages of justice -- Social harm -- Psychological harm -- Physical harm -- Financial harm -- Critical remarks -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Drawing on Foucauldian theory and 'social harm' paradigms, Naughton offers a radical redefinition of miscarriages of justice from a critical perspective. This book uncovers the limits of the entire criminal justice process and challenges the dominant perception that miscarriages of justices are rare and exceptional cases of wrongful imprisonment.

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