This book offers a history of the development of forensic sciences, centred on the UK, but with consideration of continental and colonial influences, from around 1880 to approximately 1940. This period was central to the formation of a separate discipline of forensic science with a distinct professional identity and this book charts the strategies of the new forensic scientists to gain an authoritative voice in the courtroom and to forge a professional identity in the space between forensic medicine, scientific policing, and independent expert witnessing. In so doing, it improves our understanding of how forensic science developed as it did.
...MoreReview Nicholas Duvall (2017) Review of "A History of Forensic Science: British Beginnings in the Twentieth Century". Social History of Medicine (pp. 703-704).
Review Ian Burney (2016) Review of "A History of Forensic Science: British Beginnings in the Twentieth Century". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 353-355).
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