Alison Adam

A History of Forensic Science

British beginnings in the twentieth century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a history of the development of forensic sciences, centred on the UK, but with consideration of continental and colonial influences, from around 1880 to approximately 1940. In so doing, it improves our understanding of how forensic science developed as it did.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 389g
• ISBN-13: 9781138304796
• ISBN-10: 1138304794
• Artikelnr.: 57058453

Autorenporträt

Alison Adam is Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Sheffield Hallam University. She is the author of Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine and Gender, Ethics and Information Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Relationship Between Science and Law: Expert Witnesses
in the Courtroom 2. The Influence of Scientific Criminology and
Criminalistics 3. Technoscience and the Technologies of Criminal
Identification 4. Scientific Detection, Scientific Aids and Forensic
Science Laboratories 5. Forensic Science Careers and Self-Images 6.
Forensic Science and Forensic Fiction Bibliography.