Article ID: CBB001213340

Making Space for Criminalistics: Hans Gross and fin-de-siècle CSI (2013)

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Burney, Ian Adnan (Author)


Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Volume: 44, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 16-25


Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Forensic Cultures”
Language: English

This article explores the articulation of a novel forensic object---the `crime scene'---and its corresponding expert---the investigating officer. Through a detailed engagement with the work of the late nineteenth-century Austrian jurist and criminalist Hans Gross, it analyses the dynamic and reflexive nature of this model of `CSI', emphasising the material, physical, psychological and instrumental means through which the crime scene as a delineated space, and its investigator as a disciplined agent operating within it, jointly came into being. It has a further, historiographic, aim: to move away from the commonplace emphasis in histories of forensics on fin-de-siècle criminology and toward its comparatively under-explored contemporary, criminalistics. In so doing, it opens up new ways of thinking about the crime scene as a defining feature of our present-day forensic culture that recognise its historical contingency and the complex processes at work in its creation and development.

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Authors & Contributors
Saumitra Basu
Jinee Lokaneeta
Gal Hertz
Ciliberti, Rosagemma
Ventura, Francesco
Thompson, Courtney Elizabeth
Concepts
Criminology
Crime
Forensic sciences
Science and law
Police; criminal justice departments
Science and society
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
18th century
Places
United States
Italy
France
India
Beijing (China)
Madrid (Spain)
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