The social life of forensic evidence /

The social life of forensic evidence /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kruse, Corinna, 1975- author.
Imprint:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Forensic sciences. Criminal investigation. Criminal investigation. Forensic sciences. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11755350

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ISBN:	9780520963337 0520963334 9780520288386 9780520288393
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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. Kruse argues that forensic evidence can be understood as a form of knowledge, and as such, pieces of forensic evidence have social lives and biographies. She shows, for example, how the crime scene examination is as crucial in creating forensic evidence as the analyses done in the laboratory; 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, Kruse examines how forensic evidence is produced and which social relationships it creates as cases move from crime scene to courtroom. She shows how forensic evidence is neither a fixed entity nor solely material but is inseparably part of and made through legal, social, and technological practices"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Print version: Kruse, Corinna, 1975- Social life of forensic evidence 9780520288386

Table of 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.