The social life of forensic evidence / Corinna Kruse.

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"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 liv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kruse, Corinna, 1975- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Forensic sciences.
Criminal investigation.
Physical Description:viii, 196 pages
Format: Book
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.