Cannibals and Colonialism

On 23 December 1826 on the New South Wales frontier, a white shepherd named Henry Preston went to his employer, John Jamieson, to conect his weekly rations. Neither Preston nor his dog returned home, and another shepherd raised the alarm. A brief search yielded nothing. Foul play was feared and suspicion fen upon a group of local Aborigines. The Magistrate was not at home and the district constable, although summoned, did not arrive. A rumour circulated that the Aborigines had been seen with sugar rations. Jamieson decided to take the matter into his own hands

In crime's archive: The cultural afterlife of criminal evidence

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. © The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD). All rights reserved

Photographs and Labels: Against a Criminology of Innocence

The American photographer Taryn Simon was inspired by the Innocence Project (which aims to acquit falsely convicted people by introducing evidence that was unavailable during their trial) to begin her own photographic project. Simons project explicitly scrutinises the role played by photography, especially its role in producing guilt from innocence, in the criminal justice system

Bad Holocaust Art

This article examines the representation of the Holocaust in the visual arts, and evaluates theories of that representation which seek to place limits upon artworks that are seen to transgress responsible modes. Acknowledging that the Holocaust is one of the most fraught and contested of crime scenes, it opens by studying the public responses to the Mirroring Evil exhibition, at the Jewish Museum in New York in 2002. It traces changing critical and theoretical discourses about the limits of Holocaust representation, and tests these against practices in literature, historiography, jurisprudence and visual art. In particular, it describes the transgressive goals of certain practices within contemporary visual art, and proposes an ethical framework for engaging with various forms of transgressive conduct

The Archival Turn in Law: The papers of Lindy Chamberlain in the National Library of Australia

Lindy Chamberlain is the victim of Australia’s most notorious miscarriage of justice; in 1982 she was wrongly convicted of the murder of her baby daughter, Azaria. In the decades following her exoneration, Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, as she is now known, came to an arrangement with the National Library of Australia to care for the papers she had accumulated as a result of her daughter’s death and the legal processes that followed. This article examines the ‘Chamberlain Papers’ through the lens of materiality and scholarship associated with the ‘archival turn’ in the humanities, social sciences and information sciences. This approach affords an understanding of documents as objects, artefacts and technologies. Working materially with documents provides new opportunities for legal scholars to understand files, papers, recordkeeping and bureaucracy, and gives legal significance to papers created outside the law

Description and analysis of 890-MHz noise-measuring equipment

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Dignity in the digital age: Broadcasting the Oscar Pistorius trial

© The Author(s) 2018. Oscar Pistorius was tried for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp in South Africa in 2014. His trial was broadcast live, after media agencies applied to the court for comprehensive access to the courtroom. The decision to broadcast the trial followed a careful and deliberative court ruling about the constitutional principles of human dignity, freedom and equality. South Africa’s post-apartheid Constitution provides a framework for achieving social transformation, and open justice plays an important role in it. Despite concerns about sensationalism and voyeurism, the broadcast of the Pistorius trial functioned as a constitutional experiment. This article evaluates the principles and practices of open justice in South Africa through the broadcast of the Pistorius trial, and the roles played by the media, the courts and the public. It identifies significant events during the trial, including its reporting, which had the effect of testing the compatibility of open justice, on the one hand, and the proper administration of justice, on the other. The right of an accused to a fair trial, at times, confronted the sensitivities of the victim’s family, the rights of the media and the demands of the public to witness justice being done. This article examines the tangled relationship between dignity and justice, compounded by the technologies of digital media, in the unique context of post-apartheid South Africa

Little Clues: Frances Glessner Lee's Archives of Domestic Homicide

Beginning in 1944, Frances Glessner Lee created a collection of at least twenty miniature doll's houses to assist police detectives in learning techniques of criminal investigation. These - the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death - are tiny and fully furnished buildings, primarily domestic interiors, which portray an unexplained or suspicious death. Most of them suggest intimate partner homicides, suicides or fatal domestic accidents. The Nutshells represent a strange convergence of archival practice and emotional engagement. They are regarded as providing autobiographical clues to Lee's misery and loneliness, and this article explores their ability to draw together affective and pedagogical responses to crime's archive. Starting with Carlo Ginzburg's 'clues' paradigm, the article draws on historical and critical scholarship on scale, size and affect to investigate the Nutshells' entanglement of archives and emotions

Dark Archive: The Afterlife of Forensic Photographs

This chapter explores what happens to old police photographs. When taken, these photographs capture the aftermath of a crime and are intended to have an evidentiary purpose. After the conclusion of proceedings, or the closure of the police file, these images sometimes acquire new value, separate from their role in a criminal investigation. Drawing upon the work of Luc Sante and Peter Doyle, this chapter seeks to understand what is forensic about forensic photographs and what else they might contain. It examines the effects of exhibiting police photographs in the cultural sphere, in their afterlife, exposing the aesthetic and affective attributes of evidentiary photography

Radioimmunoassay of Oxidized Calmodulin in Chloramine-T Treated Tissue Samples

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