Tracing Technologies: Prisoners' Views in the Era of CSI

By Helena Machado and Barbara Prainsack

Book Overview

Through critically engaging with STS, sociological and criminological perspectives on the use of DNA technologies within the criminal justice system, this work provides the reader with valuable insights into the effect of different legal, political, discursive, and historical configurations on how crime scene technologies are utilized by the police and related to by convicted offenders.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140943074X
• ISBN13: 9781409430742
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"