Gothic Forensics : Criminal Investigative Procedure in Victorian Horror & Mystery / by Michael Arntfield.
Arntfield, Michael, author.
2016
HM623
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Title Gothic Forensics : Criminal Investigative Procedure in Victorian Horror & Mystery / by Michael Arntfield.
Author Arntfield, Michael, author.
ISBN 9781137565808
1137565802
9781137567932
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56580-8
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxv, 253 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1057/978-1-137-56580-8 doi
Call Number HM623
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.01
Summary This book explores a number of foundational Victorian Gothic texts that have either predicted or prefigured key investigative methods used by police today. It also critically assesses the legislative, procedural, and forensic implications of crime fiction and horror produced during the Victorian era. Titles ranging from Bleak House to Dracula are demonstrated to be driving forces behind the professional standards and investigative methods used by police departments in the United States and United Kingdom, both then and now. Gothic Forensics explains how and why the Gothic served as the unlikely but irrefutable creative engine for advances in forensics made in the following century--techniques and technologies taken for granted today--as well as the literary progenitor of the prevailing methodologies now used in criminal investigation and profiling, the collection of evidence, and the administration of justice.
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Series Semiotics and popular culture.
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Introduction: The Forensic Guide
1 The House of the Seven Gables: Wrongful Convictions & Secondary Deviation
2 Bleak House: Authorship Attribution & Suspectology
3 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue": Cognitive Interviewing & Crime Scene Continuity
4 "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt": Holdback Evidence & the Copycat Effect
5 Dracula: Criminal Paraphilia & Expert Witnesses
6 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: Criminal Responsibility and Psychogeography
7 The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Psychopathy Checklist & the Dark Triad
8 The House by the Churchyard: Forensic Anthropology & Investigative Countermeasures
9 Trilby: Forensic Victimology & the Svengali Defense
Conclusion: Towards a Literary Criminology.

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