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Defining Evidential Fetishism in Forensic Science

Law, Culture and the Humanities

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Abstract

Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print.
The phenomenon of “evidence fetishism” in forensic science is defined as treating physical traces as having inherent meaning, separate from necessary interpretation. Drawing on Marxist, semiotic, Freudian, and Ginzburgian theories, the analysis explains ...