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Tracing Technologies - Prisoners' Views in the Era of CSI (Paperback)
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Tracing Technologies - Prisoners' Views in the Era of CSI (Paperback)
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The real heroes of television crime shows in the twenty-first
century are no longer police detectives but forensic technologies.
The immense popularity of high-tech crime television shows has
changed the way in which crime scene work is viewed. The term
'CSI-effect' was coined to signify a situation where people's views
and practices have been influenced by such media representations,
e.g. judges and jurors putting more weight on forensic evidence
that has been produced with high-tech tools - in particular, DNA
evidence - than on other kinds of evidence. While considerable
scholarly attention has been paid to examining the CSI effect on
publics, jurors, judges, and police investigators, prisoners' views
on forensic technologies and policing have been under-explored.
Drawing on a research sample of over 50 interviews carried out with
prisoners in Portugal and Austria, this groundbreaking book shows
how prisoners view crime scene traces, how they understand crime
scene technologies, and what effect they attribute to the existence
of large police databases on their own lives, careers, and futures.
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.
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