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Forensic cultures in modern Europe
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This edited volume examines the performance of physicians, psychiatrists and other scientists as expert witnesses in modern European courts of law and police investigations. Its chapters discuss cases from criminal, civil and international law to parse the impact of forensic evidence and expertise in different European countries (Scotland, England, Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, Portugal, Norway and the Netherlands) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They show how modern forensic science and technology was inextricably entangled with political ideology, gender norms, changes in the law and legal systems. New scientific ideas and technology, such as blood tests and DNA, helped develop forensic science, but did not necessarily lead to a straightforward acceptance of expertise in the courtroom. Discussing fascinating case studies, the chapters in this book highlight how the ideology of authoritarian and liberal regimes affected the practical enactment of forensic expertise. They also emphasise the influence of images of masculinity and femininity on the performance of experts and their assessment of evidence, victims and perpetrators, for example in cases of rape, infanticide and crimes of passion. This book is an important contribution to our knowledge of modern European forensic practices, which, as several chapters underline, sometimes surprisingly diverge from institutional regulations.
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Keywords
- 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
- Crime & criminology
- crimes of passion
- Criminal investigation & detection
- Criminal or forensic psychology
- Expertise
- forensic medicine
- forensic psychiatry
- forensic science
- gender
- History
- history of medicine
- History: earliest times to present day
- Humanities
- Infanticide
- Law
- medicine
- Medicine: General Issues
- murder
- Other branches of medicine
- Psychology
- sexual assault
- Social services & welfare, criminology
- Society & Social Sciences
- thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology::JKVF Criminal investigation and detection::JKVF1 Forensic science
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMK Criminal or forensic psychology
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKT Forensic medicine
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
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