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Takeover
What initially appears to be a bank heist turns into something far more complex and deadly. When forensic scientist Theresa MacLean seizes the opportunity to trade places with the city's best hostage negotiator, she must decide what she is willing to sacrifice in order to save the lives of innocent people as well as her own.
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
A book by a leading exponent of work with mentally disordered offenders charting key events in a fifty year career, which will be of particular interest to criminal psychologists, psychiatrists, probation officers, social workers, judges, magistrates, criminologists, and all students of crime and punishment. From a relatively modest background, Herschel Prins rose to become a leading authority on forensic work with offenders suffering from mental disorder. In this frank and heartfelt account, he traces his journey from 'main grade' probation officer, Home Office civil servant, trainer and inspector to top level positions within academic institutions (notably at Leicester University and Loughborough University), with the Parole Board, key nationwide committees, inquiries and beyond. His 'reflections' on a life geared to enhancing knowledge and understanding in this sphere contain unique insights for practitioners and general readers alike - and words of wisdom for the Criminal Justice System as it enters the second decade of the 21st century.
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The night gate
\"In a sleepy French village, the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week later a famous art critic is viciously murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occurred more than seventy years apart. Asked by a colleague to inspect the site of the former, forensics expert Enzo Macleod quickly finds himself embroiled in the investigation of the latter. Two extraordinary narratives are set in train - one historical, unfolding in the treacherous wartime years of Occupied France; the other contemporary, set in the autumn of 2020 as France re-enters Covid lockdown. And Enzo's investigations reveal an unexpected link between the murders - the Mona Lisa.Tasked by the exiled General Charles de Gaulle to keep the world's most famous painting out of Nazi hands after the fall of France in 1940, 28-year-old Georgette Pignal finds herself swept along by the tide of history. Following in the wake of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa as it is moved from château to château by the Louvre, she finds herself just one step ahead of two German art experts sent to steal it for rival patrons - Hitler and Göring.What none of them know is that the Louvre itself has taken exceptional measures to keep the painting safe, unwittingly setting in train a fatal sequence of events extending over seven decades. Events that have led to both killings.\"--Publisher.
Justice and Science
Databases of both convicted offenders and no-suspect cases demonstrate the power of DNA testing to solve the unsolvable. George \"Woody\" Clarke is a leading authority in legal circles and among the news media because of his expertise in DNA evidence. In this memoir, Clarke chronicles his experiences in some of the most disturbing and notorious sexual assault and murder court cases in California. He charts the beginnings of DNA testing in police investigations and the fight for its acceptance by courts and juries. He illustrates the power of science in cases he personally prosecuted or in which he assisted, including his work with the prosecution team in the trial of O. J. Simpson.Clarke also covers cases where DNA evidence was used to exonerate. He directed a special project in San Diego County, proactively examining over six hundred cases of defendants convicted and sentenced to prison before 1993, with the goal of finding instances in which DNA typing might add new evidence and then offered testing to those inmates.As Clarke tells the story of how he came to understand and use this new form of evidence, readers will develop a new appreciation for the role of science in the legal system.
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Fictional Death and Scientific Truth: The Truth-Value of Science in Contemporary Forensic Crime Fiction
In this article, the author explores the relationship between science and truth in forensic crime fiction by analysis of narrative and media-specific constituents of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000-) and Patricia Cornwell's The Scarpetta Factor (2009). Despite the different media, both are found to establish a strong bond between science and truth, and readers/viewers are encouraged to assume that this also is the case in the external world. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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The Lazarus curse
In 1780s London, Dr. Thomas Silkstone investigates the mysterious disappearance of the sole survivor of an ill-fated scientific expedition, which is linked to a potion that has the power to raise the dead, drawing him into a dark world of vengeance, murder and the trafficking of corpses for profit.
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THE LITERARY IMAGE OF ANTHROPOLOGISTS
Strangely, anthropologists have ignored popular accounts of themselves. Yet anthropologists are the most popularized academics in fiction. They are portrayed as either heroic or (much more common) pathetic. Fieldwork marks them out as distinctive and makes ordinary anthropologists odd and the already odd ones even odder. Writers of fiction exploit these characters to enable geographical shifts, debate cultural relativity, poke fun at the discipline, discuss anthropological ideas, and detect crimes. Usually, these images of anthropologists are Anglocentric, fundamentally atemporal, gender-blind, and apolitical. Since a good number of these authors are anthropologists themselves, they suggest that some of our colleagues have a frivolous attitude to the discipline. Studying these popular works, which may be regarded as forms of applied anthropology, helps to dislodge the hegemony of its academic version. They remind us that anthropology is not singular, but plural, and that only a section of its history is decided within the cloisters of academe. / Les anthropologues ne semblent guère s'intéresser à leur imagerie populaire. C'est bien étonnant, car parmi les universitaires, ce sont eux que l'on rencontre le plus souvent dans les romans, sous les traits de personnages héroïques ou, bien plus souvent, ridicules. Le travail de terrain en fait des personnages à part, et confère de la bizarrerie aux anthropologues les plus ordinaires, pour ne rien dire de ceux qui sont déjà bizarres au départ. Les auteurs de fiction y ont recours pour dépayser le lecteur, évoquer la relativité culturelle, se moquer de l'anthropologie, aborder des questions anthropologiques ou élucider des énigmes criminelles. L'anthropologue tel qu'on l'imagine est le plus souvent anglais, intemporel, masculin et apolitique. Bon nombre d'auteurs sont eux-mêmes anthropologues suggèrent ainsi que certains de nos collègues ne prennent pas leur discipline tout à fait au sérieux. L'étude de ces romans populaires, qui peut être considérée comme une forme d'anthropologie appliquée, nous aidera à déboulonner cet archétype académique en rappelant qu'il n'y a pas une, mais plusieurs anthropologies, et qu'une partie seulement de l'histoire de la discipline s'écrit dans les cénacles universitaires.
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Close to the bone
Forensic scientist Theresa MacLean stumbles across a murder rather too close for comfort when she returns to the Medical Examiner's office following a late night call to find one deskman missing and the other beaten to death. Written in blood above the dead man's head is a single word: \"Confess\". It's the first time a homicide has taken place actually within the ME's office. Medical Examiner Stone works on how to spin the news while Theresa works the scene. When a second victim is discovered, Theresa uncovers a link to the death of another co worker, records secretary Diane Allman, who was murdered in her own home ten years before. As she painstakingly pieces the clues together, Theresa realizes that she has become an integral part of a ruthless killer's murderous agenda. And if she is to survive, she must find out what really happened to Diane all those years ago.
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