Helena Machado, Barbara Prainsack

Tracing Technologies

Prisoners' Views in the Era of CSI

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9781138107502
• ISBN-10: 1138107506
• Artikelnr.: 57044273

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.