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The social life of forensic evidence / Corinna Kruse.
De Gruyter University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kruse, Corinna, 1975- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forensic sciences.
- Criminal investigation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (205 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780520963337
- 0520963334
- OCLC:
- 1102808300
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