The social life of forensic evidence / Corinna Kruse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kruse, Corinna, 1975- author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Organization)

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forensic sciences.

Criminal investigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

In court : legal stories

The public prosecution's office : leading investigations

The criminal investigation division : people

In the laboratory : quantification and organic objectivity

The crime scene division : traces

Colluding and colliding worlds : moving forensic evidence

In court, reprise : legal truth

Conclusion : the social life of forensic evidence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Kruse, Corinna, 1975- author. Social life of forensic evidence

ISBN:

9780520963337

0520963334

Publisher Number:

99966741792

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