Tracing Technologies - Prisoners'' Views in the Era of Csi

Through critically engaging with STS, sociological and criminological perspectives on the use of DNA technologies within the criminal justice system, this work provides the reader with valuable insights into the effect of different legal, political, discursive, and historical configurations on how crime scene technologies are utilized by the police and related to by convicted offenders.

List of contents

Contents: Foreword, Troy Duster; Introduction; Setting the scene: Austria; Setting the scene: Portugal; Inside jobs: how to avoid crime scene traces; Biological traces: ’the evidence doesn’t lie’; In everybody, ’there’s always a bug inside’: does DNA profiling and databasing deter criminals?; Technologies of innocence: exoneration and exculpation; Criminal bodies and abusive authorities; Conclusion; Afterword: forensic DNA and the human sciences, Robin Williams; References; Glossary; References; Index.

About the author

Helena Machado is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minho, Portugal and Barbara Prainsack is Professor of Sociology and Politics of Bioscience at Brunel University, UK

Summary

Through critically engaging with STS, sociological and criminological perspectives on the use of DNA technologies within the criminal justice system, this work provides the reader with valuable insights into the effect of different legal, political, discursive, and historical configurations on how crime scene technologies are utilized by the police and related to by convicted offenders.

Product details

• Authors: Helena Machado, Helena Prainsack Machado, Machado Helena, Barbara Prainsack, Prainsack Barbara
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.05.2017
• EAN: 9781138107502
• ISBN: 978-1-138-10750-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Forensic Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Forensic Science, Legal aspects of criminology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminology: legal aspects