Katherine Biber

In Crime's Archive

The Cultural Afterlife of Evidence

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 205
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780367895280
• ISBN-10: 0367895285
• Artikelnr.: 58380610

Autorenporträt

Katherine Biber is Professor of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Permissions
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