Tracing technologies: prisoners' views in the era of CSI
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1. Verfasser: Machado, Helena (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham Ashgate ©2011
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Setting the scene: Austria -- Setting the scene: Portugal -- Inside jobs: sources of information on avoiding crime scene traces -- "The evidence doesn't lie": biological traces as "truth machines" -- 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
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
ISBN:9781409430759
1409430758
9781409430742
140943074X

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