Book launch with Karen McGregor Richmond
CANCELLED
iCourts is hosting a book discussion with Postdoctoral Research Fellow Karen Richmond who will present her book:
Marketisation and Forensic Science Provision in England and Wales
Programme
| 12:15-12:20 | Welcome by Center Director, Professor Mikael Rask Madsen |
| 12:20-12:45 | Presentation of the book by Karen McGregor Richmond, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at iCourts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. |
| 12:45-13:05 | Discussants: Associate Professor Shai Dothan Dr Nina Sunde |
| 13:05-13:15 | General debate chaired by Center Director, Professor Mikael Rask |
Attendees are invited to a social gathering at iCourts following the discussion.
Author bio
Karen McGregor Richmond is a postdoctoral researcher at the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence for International Courts, University of Copenhagen, and postgraduate researcher at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. Her primary research focuses on expert evidence, and the interactions between law, science, and technology.
About the book
This unique work of evidence scholarship details the development of marketised forensic science provision in the UK. Exploring the impact that public policy developments have had upon the sector, it delves into the re-structuring of both the governance and delivery of expert scientific evidence.
Using first-hand accounts drawn from empirical research, this study analyses the practices and perspectives of forensic experts and criminal justice personnel, with a particular focus on the influence of standardisation, expertise, and regulation on scientific method.
Expanding our understanding of the ways in which forensic scientists have responded to policy-driven structural changes, the author highlights the effects of resulting adaptations.
Challenging subsisting accounts of law’s deference to expert knowledge, this work uncovers the normative and conceptual underpinnings of law and science, to provide an innovative account of the practice of case construction. Using comparative case-study methods, the study highlights the need for a genuine theoretical engagement between the two domains and supports this endeavour with a range of empirically informed discussions, and detailed theoretical analyses. Revisiting the landmark cases, relevant legislative provisions, and government reports, the study offers a trenchant analysis of law’s mutable understandings of expertise and scientific method.
Marketisation and Forensic Science Provision in England and Wales thus lays the foundations for a more rational and systematic approach to the consumption of expert evidence.
The book is available at this link.
Meeting ID: 612 9886 7811
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