CRI350H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Forensic Pathology, Palestine Police Force, Forensic Psychiatry
28 Aug 2018
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To develop our ability to imagine other places, peoples, times. To uncover trends, dynamics, logics that we might otherwise overlook. A direct intervention in present day policy debates presentism . Often, a very statisying way of explaining causation. Non-printed/handwritten: diaries, letters, memos, case reports (also printed), transcripts. Paleography, languages, navigating historical (and contemporary) filling systems. Using knowledge of the time/place/person to make educated guesses- importance of instinct. Not really bias: this implies that there are unbiased/objective sources. How to get at experiences that were not recorded. Way of countering problems of power/holes in archival record. Context of 19th and 20th century british empire. Toxicology, ballistics, fingerprinting, new techniques in forensic pathology, forensic psychiatry. Rise of criminology in the late 19th century=direct links to forensics. But non-scientific objections were much more influential re: non-adoption of dog. Very strong association between dog tracking and slavery. By 1920, there were 65 in the sap canine unit.
