Chapter 1 Crime and the Construction of Forensic Objectivity from 1850: Introduction

Chapter 3 Murder in Miniature: Reconstructing the Crime Scene in the English Courtroom

Chapter 4 The Biggar Murder: ‘A Triumph for Forensic Odontology’

Chapter 6 The Police Surgeon, Medico-Legal Networks and Criminal Investigation in Victorian Scotland

Chapter 7 ‘13 Yards Off the Big Gate and 37 Yards Up the West Walls’. Crime Scene Investigation in Mid-nineteenth Century Newcastle upon Tyne

Chapter 8 The Construction of Forensic Knowledge in Victorian Yorkshire: Dr Thomas Scattergood and His Casebooks, 1856–1897

Chapter 9 Reporting Violent Death: Networks of Expertise and the Scottish Post-mortem

Chapter 10 Detecting the Murderess: Newspaper Representations of Women Convicted of Murder in New York City, London, and Ireland, 1880–1914

Chapter 11 ‘Children’s Lies’: The Weimar Press as Psychological Expert in Child Sex Abuse Trials

Chapter 12 Murder Cases, Trunks and the Entanglement of Ethics: The Preservation and Display of Scenes of Crime Material