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This book investigates what happens to criminal evidence after the conclusion of legal proceedings. In its 'afterlife', criminal evidence continues to proliferate in cultural contexts; often arousing the interest of journalists, scholars, curators, writers or artists.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
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Introduction: Afterlife, evidence, archive
Chapter 1: The afterlife of police photographs
Chapter 2: The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death: Crime scenes as doll’s houses
Chapter 3: The afterlife of criminal evidence in the news media
Chapter 4: The Oscar Pistorius Trial: An afterlife in real time
Chapter 5: The Museum: Curating evidence
Chapter 6: The Lindy Chamberlain Case: The afterlife of a miscarriage of justice
Chapter 7: International crimes: The afterlife of evidence of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity
Conclusion: Destroying the evidence
Index
About the author
Katherine Biber is Professor of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Summary
This book investigates what happens to criminal evidence after the conclusion of legal proceedings. In its ‘afterlife’, criminal evidence continues to proliferate in cultural contexts; often arousing the interest of journalists, scholars, curators, writers or artists.
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"In the course of seven wonderfully self-contained chapters, each focused upon different evidentiary afterlives in different institutional contexts, In Crime’s Archive explores the ways in which criminal evidence continues to play formative and expansive roles in the cultural and popular life of society as well as the very real lives of those most directly implicated in it."
Michelle Brown, Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee, Law and Society Review
"One of the gifts this book offers is its capacity to open multiple windows onto the world of evidence, criminal justice, and culture ... This book offers a different way of thinking about the objects that the criminal justice process accumulates, organizes, and stores in its archives. It shines a light on the ways in which a wide variety of individuals and institutions are mining them. It calls for the reader to question and problematize the journey that the objects in law’s archive take into wider society."
Leslie J Moran, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, Social and Legal Studies
