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Cold Case Reviews: DNA, Detective Work and Unsolved Major Crimes

By Cheryl Allsop
Oxford University Press February 2018

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ISBN-13
9780198747451
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
February 2018
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book provides the first ethnographic account of a UK major crime review team, providing a comprehensive, conceptual account of cold case reviews not currently available from an academic criminological perspective.

Cold case reviews are a relatively new and innovative form of policing yet, to date, there has been little empirical research into their conduct in the UK. Addressing this empirical void by shining a light on the practicalities and realities of cold case investigations, the author spent eight months with a major crime review team tasked with conducting 28-day reviews of 'live' unsolved murder and stranger rapes and detecting long term unsolved major crimes. The resulting work contains a unique focus on forensic science and the role of the National DNA Database (NDNAD) in cold case reviews, adding to the current debates about the police use of forensic science, as well as consideration of the growing public concern about historic sexual offences and the criminal justice responses to them, with an exploration of the debates around the implications of investigating these crimes many years later. Presenting the key findings in relation to the opportunities and challenges to successful cold case reviews, the role of forensic science and other forms of expertise in cold case reviews, and the political and moral considerations being made in this regard, the resulting work will be of interest to practitioners tasked with investigating long term unsolved crimes and students and researchers interested in policing and investigations.

Table of Contents

1: Setting the Scene
2: Instrumental and symbolic politics in policing
3: Studies of detective work and the use of forensic science
4: The development of cold case reviews
5: The Major Crime Review Team
6: Organising the organisational memory
7: The reliance on science
8: Expertise versus experience
9: Politics and morality in major crime reviews
Concluding comments
Bibliography
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