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The social life of forensic evidence / / Corinna Kruse



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Autore: Kruse Corinna <1975-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The social life of forensic evidence / / Corinna Kruse Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
Disciplina: 363.25
Soggetto topico: Forensic sciences
Criminal investigation
Soggetto non controllato: crime lab
crime scene analysis
crime scene division
crime scene examination
crime scene technicians
crime scene to courtroom
crime
criminal investigation division
criminal justice work
criminal justice
criminology
evidence handling
forensic evidence
forensic science
history of forensics
legal evidence
litigation
police evidence
police investigations
production of forensic evidence
science and technology of crime
science and technology studies
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. In Court: LEGAL STORIES -- CHAPTER TWO. The Public Prosecution's Office: LEADING INVESTIGATIONS -- CHAPTER THREE. The Criminal Investigation Division: PEOPLE -- CHAPTER FOUR. In the Laboratory: QUANTIFICATION AND ORGANIC OBJECTIVITY -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Crime Scene Division: TRACES -- CHAPTER SIX. Colluding and Colliding Worlds MOVING FORENSIC EVIDENCE -- CHAPTER SEVEN. In Court, Reprise: LEGAL TRUTH -- Conclusion: THE SOCIAL LIFE OF FORENSIC EVIDENCE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
Sommario/riassunto: In The Social Life of Forensic Evidence, Corinna Kruse provides a major contribution to understanding forensic evidence and its role in the criminal justice system. Arguing that forensic evidence can be understood as a form of knowledge, she reveals that each piece of evidence has a social life and biography. Kruse shows how the crime scene examination is as crucial to the creation of forensic evidence as laboratory analyses, the plaintiff, witness, and suspect statements elicited by police investigators, and the interpretations that prosecutors and defense lawyers bring to the evidence. Drawing on ethnographic data from Sweden and on theory from both anthropology and science and technology studies, she examines how forensic evidence is produced and how it creates social relationships as cases move from crime scene to courtroom. She demonstrates that forensic evidence is neither a fixed entity nor solely material, but is inseparably part of and made through particular legal, social, and technological practices.
Titolo autorizzato: The social life of forensic evidence  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-96333-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910797719403321
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