{"id":2326,"date":"2015-11-24T12:32:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T12:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2017-08-08T12:38:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T11:38:55","slug":"a-history-of-forensic-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/a-history-of-forensic-science\/","title":{"rendered":"A history of forensic science: British beginnings in the twentieth century – Prof Alison Adam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Title:<\/td>A history of forensic science: British beginnings in the twentieth century<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Series Title:<\/td>Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Publisher: <\/td>Routledge<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Authors:<\/td>Prof Alison Adam<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Publication date:<\/td>November 2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Print ISBN:<\/td>978-0415856423<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Format: <\/td>15.6 x 1.6 x 23.4 cm hardcover<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Number of pages:<\/td>236<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

How and when did forensic science originate in the UK? This question demands our attention because our understanding of present-day forensic science is vastly enriched through gaining an appreciation of what went before. A History of Forensic Science<\/a><\/i> is the first book to consider the wide spectrum of influences which went into creating the discipline in Britain in the first part of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n

This book offers a history of the development of forensic sciences, centred on the UK, but with consideration of continental and colonial influences, from around 1880 to approximately 1940. This period was central to the formation of a separate discipline of forensic science with a distinct professional identity and this book charts the strategies of the new forensic scientists to gain an authoritative voice in the courtroom and to forge a professional identity in the space between forensic medicine, scientific policing, and independent expert witnessing. In so doing, it improves our understanding of how forensic science developed as it did.<\/p>\n

This book is essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of criminology, the history of forensic science, science and technology studies and the history of policing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How and when did forensic science originate in the UK? This question demands our attention because our understanding of present-day forensic science is vastly enriched through gaining an appreciation of what went before. A History of Forensic Science is the first book to consider the wide spectrum of influences which went into creating the discipline in Britain in the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":444,"featured_media":2337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[414,6,415],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","tag-alison-adam","tag-communication-and-computing-research-centre","tag-forensic-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/07\/ADAM-2015-11-a-history-of-forensic-science.jpg?fit=300%2C317&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-Bw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4064,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/alison-adam-forensic-science-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":2326,"position":0},"title":"Researcher Blog by Professor Alison Adam: Crime, policing, technology and the development of forensic science – lessons for today","author":"Alison Honnor","date":"31\/01\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"About the author Alison Adam is Professor of Science, Technology & Society. 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