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The engrossing account of how science-based forensics transformed the investigation of twentieth-century murders and in the process invented CSI.Crime scene investigation—or CSI—has captured the modern imagination. On television screens and in newspapers, we follow the exploits of forensic officers wearing protective suits and working behind police tape to identify and secure physical evidence for laboratory analysis. But where did this ensemble of investigative specialists and scientific techniques come from? In Murder and the Making of English CSI, Ian Burney and Neil Pemberton tell the engrossing history of how, in the first half of the twentieth century, novel routines, regulations, and techniques—from chain-of-custody procedures to the analysis of hair, blood, and fiber—fundamentally transformed the processing of murder scenes. Focusing on two iconic English investigations—the 1924 case of Emily Kaye, who was beaten and dismembered by her lover at a lonely beachfront holiday cottage, and the 1953 investigation into John Christie's serial murders in his dingy terraced home in London's West End—Burney and Pemberton chart the emergence of the crime scene as a new space of forensi

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Burney, Ian A.;Pemberton, Neil
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Published
2016
Language
EN
ISBN
9781421420417
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, History, True Crime

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