Open justice and open secrets: the cultural afterlife of criminal evidence
Funding: 2013: $44,000
2014: $30,000
2015: $70,000
Project Member(s): Biber, K.
Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)
Start year: 2013
Summary: This project examines the cultural afterlife of criminal evidence. It investigates what happens to the evidence tendered in criminal proceedings after the conclusion of the trial, in order to develop an appropriate response to the cultural proliferation of material that was previously tightly-regulated. Formally regarded as part of the court record, and subject to the rules of evidence during the trial, this material has aroused the interest of creative and commercial users who wish access it, sometimes for purposes which might be transgressive, dangerous or insensitive. This project asks what is at stake in opening this criminal archive, and what might be at stake if we try to regulate it.
Publications:
Biber, K 2019, In Crime's Archive, Routledge, Abingdon UK.
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Donna, WB & Natalya, L 2019, 'Photography and Ontology' in Brett, DW & Lusty, N (eds), Photography and Ontology: Unsettling Images, Routledge, New York, pp. 41-55.
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Biber, K 2019, 'Dignity in the digital age: Broadcasting the Oscar Pistorius trial', Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 401-422.
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Biber, K 2019, 'Little Clues: Frances Glessner Lee's Archives of Domestic Homicide', law&history., vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 46-82.
Biber, K 2017, 'The Cultural Afterlife of Criminal Evidence' in Rafter, N & Brown, M (eds), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 1-20.
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Cunneen, C 2017, 'Visual Power and Sovereignty: Indigenous Art and Colonialism' in Brown, M & Carrabine, E (eds), Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 376-388.
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Biber, K 2017, 'Evidence in the Museum: Curating a Miscarriage of Justice', Theoretical Criminology, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 505-522.
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Biber, K 2017, 'Grant'.
Biber, K 2017, 'The Archival Turn in Law: The Papers of Lindy Chamberlain in the National Library of Australia', Sydney Law Review, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 277-301.
Biber, K 2015, 'Open secrets, open justice' in Martin, G, Scott Bray, R & Kumar, M (eds), Secrecy, Law and Society, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 234-250.
Biber, K 2015, 'Peeping: Open justice and law's voyeurs' in Sharp, C & Leiboff, M (eds), Cultural Legal Studies: Law's Popular Cultures and the Metamorphosis of Law, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 160-182.
Biber, K 2013, 'IN CRIME'S ARCHIVE The Cultural Afterlife of Criminal Evidence', BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 1033-1049.
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Keywords: Law and literature,Socio-legal studies,Visual criminology
FOR Codes: Law and Society, Law Reform, Legal Theory, Jurisprudence and Legal Interpretation, Legal Processes, Criminological Theories, Criminal Justice, Law and society and socio-legal research, Legal theory, jurisprudence and legal interpretation