Psychological impact of being wrongfully accused of criminal offences: A systematic literature review

SK Brooks, N Greenberg - Medicine, Science and the Law, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Being wrongfully accused of criminal offences can lead to serious negative consequences to
those wrongfully accused and their families. However, there is little research on the …

Life after exoneration: An overview of factors that affect exoneree reintegration

JM Kirshenbaum, JJ Cabell, SA Moody… - Advances in Psychology …, 2020 - Springer
Despite extensive research summarizing the causes of wrongful convictions, there is no
summary of the literature on factors that influence exonerees' reintegration into society …

The Post Office Scandal in the United Kingdom: Mental health and social experiences of wrongly convicted and wrongly accused individuals

B Growns, J Kukucka, R Moorhead… - Legal and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Wrongful criminal conviction can significantly impair the mental health of
exonerees. However, much less is known about wrongful accusation: the impact of wrongful …

The Exoneree Health and Life Experiences (ExHaLE) study: Trauma exposure and mental health among wrongly convicted individuals.

J Kukucka, AM Horodyski, CM Dardis - Psychology, Public Policy …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
The exoneree population is growing rapidly, and legislatures are increasingly contemplating
whether and how to better support exonerees' reentry, yet our understanding of exonerees' …

You have to talk with us, not about us”: Exploring the harms of wrongful accusation on those affected in the case of the Dutch 'childcare-benefit scandal

S Konaté, B Pali - Revista de Victimología, 2023 - psykebase.es
This article explores the consequences of the so-called 'childcare-benefit scandal'that has
taken place in the Netherlands where approximately 26.000 parents have been wrongfully …

“Take It One Day at a Time and Try to Adjust to What's Going on”: Exonerees' Advice to the Newly Exonerated and Future Exonerees About Life Post-Release

RA DeShay - Criminal Justice Review, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Wrongful convictions have received increased attention from both scholars and the media
over the past several decades. Most of the research on this topic has focused on the factors …

We can't, sorry, but we can't do it': how wrongful convictions impact employment and education throughout the life-course

ML Estes - Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Attention given to wrongful convictions typically focuses on those experiences leading up to
release and less on community reentry post-release. The current study contributes to …

An audit study of barriers to mental health treatment for wrongly incarcerated people.

J Kukucka, K Reyes-Fuentes… - Law and Human …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: People who have been wrongly incarcerated report exceptionally poor mental
health, and despite having been exonerated, they face discrimination similar to other …

Survival, self-sufficiency, and repair: reentry strategies and resources for wrongfully convicted people

J Nowotny, E Panuccio, A Shlosberg… - Psychology, Crime & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper we draw on 26 in-depth interviews to explore the strategies and resources
utilized by wrongfully convicted people to transition from prison to communities. Our findings …

Casting light on the unseen victims: A comprehensive review of the ramifications of wrongful convictions and exonerations on families

M Sorochinski - International Review of Victimology, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Wrongful convictions, while recognized for their direct consequences on the convicted
individuals, also inflict significant harm on their families. Through a systematic literature …