The rule of law depends in many ways on how evidence is stored after case closure. A new regime for evidence management is underway in Norway - breaking with the sense of finality that is so central to criminal justice:

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So exciting to see another academic as interested in police storage of evidence as me and Louise Shorter! we have Norwegian counterparts! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Good morning! NJSTS recently published my article about a sock 🧦 that did not quite fit with evidence found at a crime scene. I trace “the forensic journey” of the sock from a cardboard box into digital spaces, as investigators try to make sense of it.

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We have all seen bouncers, volunteers, and the police patrol bar areas. I’ve sometimes thought that if you need help it doesn’t matter which of them you meet because they’re all first-line personnel and similarly equipped to assist. Here’s a behind (and between) the scenes of nightlife policing:

Happy December! I’m going to count down to Christmas with a rather unusual Advent calendar! Each day I’ll be showcasing an object used in crime detection. Follow my posts to find out what detectives used to help them solve crime in the Victorian and Edwardian periods #xmascountdown #crimedetection

I wrote an article (which later formed the basis of my book, Smoke but No Fire) about people wrongly convicted of crimes that never happened in the first place. Over one-third of all known exonerations of innocent people are in no-crime wrongful conviction cases.

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Okay, let’s give this a go.

With @foshaugen.bsky.social

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