NCJ Number
244995
Journal
British Journal of Criminology Volume: 53 Issue: 6 Dated: November 2013 Pages: 1033-1049
Date Published
November 2013
Length
17 pages
Annotation
This article explores the cultural afterlife of criminal evidence.
Abstract
This article explores the cultural afterlife of criminal evidence. During the criminal trial, strict rules govern the collection, admission and interpretation of evidence at trial. However, after the conclusion of the trial, this material returns to a notional 'archive' and is sometimes used by artists, scholars, curators and others, but subject to no rules or standards. This article examines a range of instances in which criminal evidence has been used post-trial, and proposes a jurisprudence of sensitivity for responding to the harm that is sometimes done when criminal evidence leads a cultural afterlife. (Published Abstract)