The Social Life of Forensic Evidence

A Atuação Da Comissão Interamericana De Direitos Humanos Como Exemplo De Aplicação Do Direito Administrativo Global

“…Se o conhecimento forense da arguida foi inicialmente usado pela acusação para demonstrar como o crime poderia ter sido perpetrado sem deixar qualquer vestígio, mais tarde, quando a arguida teve acesso à acusação e ao conteúdo do processo judicial, Saltão fez igualmente uso da sua consciência forense para a sua defesa. É neste jogo de consciência e conhecimento forense esgrimido em tribunal que o caso ganhou contornos particularmente interessantes e que permitem analisar de que forma as diferentes culturas epistémicas (KNORR-CETINA, 1999;KRUSE, 2016; valoraram as provas carreadas para o processo e como o conhecimento e a consciência forense de cada ator foi usado (BEAREGARD & BOUCHARD, 2010) As principais provas forenses constantes no processo eram: o casaco da arguida (recolhido na busca feita a sua casa), um ferimento na sua mão direita e a arma Glock 9 mm, desaparecida da PJ (e que nunca apareceu).…”

Embodied truths and authentic selves: The constitution of evidence and credibility in rape cases

“…Numerous cases have also been described in which a person convicted of rape based on witness identification (before the introduction of the DNA profiling technique) was exonerated after the case was reopened because of DNA evidence (Cole, 2007; Holmes, 1994). According to Jasanoff (2006) and Kruse (2016), the truth that is regarded as transcendental today is the natural truth produced by the natural sciences and by means of technology; this truth is considered objective, as it is believed to be free from human intervention and the social and cultural world.…”

“…Numerous cases have also been described in which a person convicted of rape based on witness identification (before the introduction of the DNA profiling technique) was exonerated after the case was reopened because of DNA evidence (Cole, 2007;Holmes, 1994). According to Jasanoff (2006) and Kruse (2016), the truth that is regarded as transcendental today is the natural truth produced by the natural sciences and by means of technology; this truth is considered objective, as it is believed to be free from human intervention and the social and cultural world. Lynch et al (2010) have questioned the superior status DNA evidence has acquired and argue that DNA evidence, much like any other type of evidence, depends on a fallible combination of technical and legal practices, administrative assurances and circumstantial knowledge-all of which, in addition to the biology of DNA, create the meaning and evidentiary value of DNA.…”

Whose rape kit? Stabilizing the Vitullo® Kit through positivist criminology and protocol feminism

“…STS analyses expose the myriad ways forensic evidence is socially produced. For example, Corinna Kruse’s (2015) ethnography reveals how forensic evidence is shaped by complementary and contested epistemological practices within the criminal justice system—termed epistemological friction . She examines how law enforcement actors draw on conventional crime discourses to co-produce and interpret evidence in differing ways through competing law enforcement epistemologies.…”