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Talking about television: how forensic fiction inspires the FORCE team

In a team of historians of forensic science, there is bound to be at least one person who has consumed an outrageous amount of true crime and crime fiction. Fans of the wildly popular true crime comedy podcast ‘My Favorite Murder’ have named such people ‘murderinos’. In the FORCE team, it is clear that the…

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Bringing Sex into the Fictional Courtroom

Our team at FORCE has welcomed an intern, Iris Stofberg, in December 2019. Below is the blog that Iris has written for our project. An important part of our research project is how social or cultural norms – such as ideas about gender –  interact with forensic evidence and expertise. The blog that Iris has written…

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Interview with Pauline Dirven

Our project Forensic Culture in Europe has now been underway for ten months always and the members of our team have started to work on their first chapters and cases. For the first couple of blogs, a brief interview with each member of our team will introduce the different projects that make up “Forensic Cultures”….

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Interview with Lara Bergers

The FORCE-project is now well underway and the team have started to work on their individual projects. For the first couple of blogs, a brief interview with each member of our team will introduce the different projects that make up “Forensic Cultures”. The second interview is with Lara Bergers, who investigates the forensic culture of…

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Interview with Sara Serrano-Martínez

The project is now well underway and the team have started to work on their individual projects. For the first couple of blogs, a brief interview with each member of our team will introduce the different projects that make up “Forensic Cultures”. The first interview is with Sara Serano-Martínez, who studies the forensic culture of…

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