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In Crime's Archive - The Cultural Afterlife of Evidence (Paperback)
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In Crime's Archive - The Cultural Afterlife of Evidence (Paperback)
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This book investigates what happens to criminal evidence after the
conclusion of legal proceedings. During the criminal trial,
evidentiary material is tightly regulated; it is formally regarded
as part of the court record, and subject to the rules of evidence
and criminal procedure. However, these rules and procedures cannot
govern or control this material after proceedings have ended. In
its 'afterlife', criminal evidence continues to proliferate in
cultural contexts. It might be photographic or video evidence,
private diaries and correspondence, weapons, physical objects or
forensic data, and it arouses the interest of journalists,
scholars, curators, writers or artists. Building on a growing
cultural interest in criminal archival materials, this book shows
how in its afterlife, criminal evidence gives rise to new uses and
interpretations, new concepts and questions, many of which are
creative and transformative of crime and evidence, and some of
which are transgressive, dangerous or insensitive. It takes the
judicial principle of open justice - the assumption that justice
must be seen to be done - and investigates instances in which we
might see too much, too little or from a distorted angle. It
centres upon a series of case studies, including those of Lindy
Chamberlain and, more recently, Oscar Pistorius, in which criminal
evidence has re-appeared outside of the criminal process.
Traversing museums, libraries, galleries and other repositories,
and drawing on extensive interviews with cultural practitioners and
legal professionals, this book probes the legal, ethical, affective
and aesthetic implications of the cultural afterlife of evidence.
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