Evidence in the museum: Curating a miscarriage of justice

Biber, Katherine

doi:10.1177/1362480617707950

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“…After the trial concludes, the judge issues orders regarding the distribution, preservation, or destruction of evidentiary material, and some exhibits continue to circulate in cultural contexts, arousing the interest of artists, writers, scholars, collectors, and curators. In our sample, two studies have explored the afterlife of criminal evidence (Biber, 2013(Biber, , 2018. However, objects record the changing technology of evidential documentation is still full of opportunities for further investigations.…”

Section: Criminal Evidence Related Issuesmentioning

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The Modern Scientific Proofs and their Authenticity in Criminal Evidence: Literature Review

Khalifa¹,

Yaacob²,

Masri³

2023

IJARBSS

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This research seeks to review the growing literature on modern criminal evidence and the role of technological advancement in forensic science. We reviewed 114 forensic science studies based on a systematic literature review approach. The studies provide supporting evidence that technological advancement has permitted improved progress on modern criminal evidence. The analysis cybercrime and related offenses pose a global danger to many private and corporate entities around the world. Some nations (e.g., Algeria) have adopted the notion of proof-free prosecution, which means that there is no exception to the rule in modern criminal legislation comparison as a result of the necessity to adapt and cope with changes in all parts of one's existence. Also, conventional crimes, such as fraud and money laundering, have been creatively changed into new forms by the rising popularity of the Internet. Fruitful directions for further studies and implications for policymakers were discussed.

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Section: Criminal Evidence Related Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Modern Scientific Proofs and their Authenticity in Criminal Evidence: Literature Review

Khalifa¹,

Yaacob²,

Masri³

2023

IJARBSS

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“…In terms of anthropological theories, Hall observes certain people, phenomena, and entities can challenge symbolic boundaries, unsettling classificatory systems. These observations—(1) binary oppositions exist in a nexus of power relations, (2) meanings are not fixed, but rather continuously renegotiated, and (3) classificatory systems maintain order by suppressing “Others” who challenge symbolic boundaries—are crucial for examining representations and curations in “criminal justice” museums (Barton and Brown, 2015; Biber, 2018; Wilson, 2008b).…”

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Regimes of representation in Canadian police museums: Othering, police subjectivities, and gunscapes

Pauls¹,

Walby

Piché

2022

Crime, Media, Culture

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There are dozens of public police museums located across Canada that memorialize the country’s history of law enforcement and criminalization. Drawing from fieldwork at these sites, we explore the representational devices used to curate police museum displays. Invoking Stuart Hall’s work on representation and Othering, we examine how gun displays at Canadian police museums are organized to minimize the harm that police interventions with guns cause. Arguing these displays are made intelligible through a regime of representation that naturalizes the distinction between police officers and the “criminal” Other, we examine how these museums position weaponry including the gun as an esthetic object and a force of social good when in the hands of police. Analyzing curatorial strategies such as the arrangement of weapons, mannequin placement, dress, and level of humanization, as well as the rhetoric and narratives espoused on accompanying placards, we show how the curatorial approach in these spaces ratify an ideological framework that normalizes police violence and criminalization. We then assess what our analysis contributes to literatures on police museums and policing myths.

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“…Crime can also be the topic of curatorial theories and practices when turning in evidentiary exhibits such as the Chamberlain collections at the National Museum of Australia [17] or the Criminal Museum founded in 1993 by the School of Forensic Medicine of the University of Athens [18]. As Thurston [19] and Yun [20] rightly pointed out, these practices also concern display, narrative, pedagogical, visual, and ethical issues relating to the exhibition of objects often used in heinous crimes.…”

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Knowing Is Better Than Wondering. The Cataloging of Natural Heritage between Museum Studies and Forensic Sciences

Franza¹,

Scali²,

Garofano³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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This paper aims to analyze the role of natural heritage cataloging when criminal events challenge natural history museums. This study investigates the rhino horn thefts in Italian natural history museums from 2011 to 2015 to provide a comprehensive framework for these robberies while highlighting the weaknesses and strengths to prevent thefts and safeguard both rhino horns and natural history collections from future targeting

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Evidence in the museum: Curating a miscarriage of justice

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

The Modern Scientific Proofs and their Authenticity in Criminal Evidence: Literature Review

The Modern Scientific Proofs and their Authenticity in Criminal Evidence: Literature Review

Regimes of representation in Canadian police museums: Othering, police subjectivities, and gunscapes

Knowing Is Better Than Wondering. The Cataloging of Natural Heritage between Museum Studies and Forensic Sciences

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