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Blood, Powder, and Residue goes inside a metropolitan crime laboratory to shed light on the complex social forces that underlie the analysis of forensic evidence.
Drawing on eighteen months of rigorous fieldwork in a crime lab of a major metro area, Beth Bechky tells the stories of the forensic scientists who struggle to deliver unbiased science while under intense pressure from adversarial lawyers, escalating standards of evidence, and critical public scrutiny. Bechky brings to life the daily challenges these scientists face, from the painstaking screening and testing of evidence to making communal decisions about writing up the lab report, all while worrying about attorneys asking them uninformed questions in court. She shows how the work of forensic scientists is fraught with the tensions of serving justice-constantly having to anticipate the expectations of the world of law and the assumptions of the public-while also staying true to their scientific ideals.
Blood, Powder, and Residue offers a vivid and sometimes harrowing picture of the lives of highly trained experts tasked with translating their knowledge for others who depend on it to deliver justice.
© 2021 Tantor Audio (Lydbok): 9781705242469
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 19. januar 2021
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Blood, Powder, and Residue goes inside a metropolitan crime laboratory to shed light on the complex social forces that underlie the analysis of forensic evidence.
Drawing on eighteen months of rigorous fieldwork in a crime lab of a major metro area, Beth Bechky tells the stories of the forensic scientists who struggle to deliver unbiased science while under intense pressure from adversarial lawyers, escalating standards of evidence, and critical public scrutiny. Bechky brings to life the daily challenges these scientists face, from the painstaking screening and testing of evidence to making communal decisions about writing up the lab report, all while worrying about attorneys asking them uninformed questions in court. She shows how the work of forensic scientists is fraught with the tensions of serving justice-constantly having to anticipate the expectations of the world of law and the assumptions of the public-while also staying true to their scientific ideals.
Blood, Powder, and Residue offers a vivid and sometimes harrowing picture of the lives of highly trained experts tasked with translating their knowledge for others who depend on it to deliver justice.
© 2021 Tantor Audio (Lydbok): 9781705242469
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 19. januar 2021
Tagger
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Karin
5. feb. 2022
While competently written the prose is slightly dull. It contains a lot of interesting information about forensic, especially if you want to hear about DNA, expert testimony, and comparative evidence such as ballistics. However the author’s biases are shown in how some topics are presented, the challenges to comparative evidence should be included in the chapter about comparative evidence rather than pushed towards the back to paint a more wholistic picture of the discipline, and the author’s own biases towards toxicology is shown through its lacklustre description and minimal inclusion in preference to narcotics. Toxicology is more than measuring alcohol blood content, but you wouldn’t know it from this. That being said it’s not badly researched, just presented in a slanted light.
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