Recent publications
Book
Fairclough, S, Dehaghani, R & Mergaerts, L (eds) 2023, Vulnerability, the Accused, and the Criminal Justice System: Multijurisdictional Perspectives. Routledge.
Article
Fairclough, S 2021, 'The consequences of unenthusiastic criminal justice reform: a special measures case study', Criminology and Criminal Justice, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 151-168. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895819848804
Fairclough, S 2021, 'The lost leg of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act (1999): special measures and humane treatment', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 41, no. 4, gqab014, pp. 1066-1095. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqab014
Fairclough, S 2018, 'Speaking up for Injustice: Reconsidering the provision of special measures through the lens of equality', Criminal Law Review, vol. 2018, no. 1, pp. 4-19.
Fairclough, S 2018, 'Using Hawkins’s surround, field and frames concepts to understand the complexities of special measures decision making in Crown Court trials', Journal of Law and Society, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 457-485. https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12100
Fairclough, S 2017, '‘It doesn’t happen….and I’ve never thought it was necessary for it to happen’: barriers to vulnerable defendants giving evidence by live link in Crown Court trials', The International Journal of Evidence and Proof, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 209-229. https://doi.org/10.1177/1365712716658892
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Fairclough, S & Greenwood, H 2023, Vulnerable defendants, special measures, and miscarriages of justice in England and Wales. in S Fairclough, R Dehaghani & L Mergaerts (eds), Vulnerability, the Accused, and the Criminal Justice System: Multijurisdictional Perspectives. Routledge.
Fairclough, S 2022, Vulnerability in the criminal trial. in E Johnston (ed.), Challenges in Criminal Justice. 1st edn, Routledge Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice and Procedure, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003143321-6
Chapter
Fairclough, S & Jones, I 2017, The victim in court. in S Walklate (ed.), Handbook of Victims and Victimology. 2nd edn, Routledge, London, pp. 211.
Book/Film/Article review
Fairclough, S 2018, 'John Jackson and Sarah Summers (eds), Obstacles to Fairness in Criminal Proceedings (Hart 2018)', The International Journal of Evidence and Proof. https://doi.org/10.1177/1365712718807355
Commissioned report
Fairclough, S 2020, Special measures literature review. Ministry of Justice (UK). <https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/jotwpublic-prod-storage-1cxo1dnrmkg14/uploads/sites/6/2021/12/OVC-Special-Measures-Literature-Review-July-2020.pdf>
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