Murder and the making of English CSI
Crime scene searches Forensic sciences Murder Forensic Pathology History, 20th Century Homicide Mass Media
Johns Hopkins University Press
2016
EISBN 9781421420417
Introduction; 1. The Origins of Crime Scene Investigation ; 2. Crime Scenes before CSI ; 3. Murder at "the Crumbles" ; 4. Celebrity Pathology and the Spectacle of Murder Investigation ; 5. CSI in English Translation ; 6. Forensic Pathology in the Landscape of CSI ; 7. Interrogating "the House of Murder" ; Epilogue: Revisiting Rillington Place ; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C ; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M ; N; P; R; S; T; V; W.
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.
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.
