Hitchcock, Timothy (2018) Digital affordances for criminal justice history. Crime, History & Society, 21 (2). pp. 335-342. ISSN 1422-0857

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Abstract

More than any other field of human endeavour, the criminal justice system has spawned a textual machine for knowing. One needs to look no further than the traditional law office or library, with its endless series of published law reports and series of statutes – both a visual claim to authority, and a form of working reference system – to understand that the criminal justice system is built on a foundation formed of its own archive. Its authority lies in recorded precedent and recorded statute; and on the secure record of arrest, trial and punishment. This authority in turn demands a uniquely sophisticated system of preservation and discovery.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	French Title: Crime, HIstoire & Societies ISBN 978-2-600-05916-9
Keywords:	Digital History, Crime History, Criminal Justice History,
Schools and Departments:	School of History, Art History and Philosophy > History
Research Centres and Groups:	Sussex Humanities Lab
Related URLs:	https://www.droz.org/eur/en/6629-9782600...
Depositing User:	Timothy Hitchcock
Date Deposited:	13 Aug 2018 07:29
Last Modified:	01 Oct 2018 16:42
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/77732

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