Tracing technologies
Subtitle: prisoners' views in the era of CSI
By: by Helena Machado and Barbara Prainsack
Contributors: Prainsack, Barbara
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781409430742; 9781409430759
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Criminal Evidence; Attitudes; Forensic sciences; Psychological aspects; Prisoners; DNA fingerprinting
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Setting the scene: Austria; title: Setting the scene: Portugal; title: Inside jobs: sources of information on avoiding crime scene traces; title: "The evidence doesn't lie": biological traces as "truth machines"; title: In everybody, "there's always a bug inside": does DNA profiling and databasing deter criminals?; title: Technologies of innocence: exoneration and exculpation; title: Criminal bodies and abusive authorities; title: Conclusion.