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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 forensic activity. Drawing on fascinating source material ranging from how-to investigator handbooks and detective novels to crime journalism, polic

Who reads Body, trace, space : murder and the making of English CSI?

Author

Ian A. Burney; Neil Pemberton

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781421420400

Category

science

Subjects

True Crime, History, Medical

Rating

3.43 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14