Jones, I (2018) It’s all about justice’: Bodies, Balancing Competing Interests and Suspicious Deaths. Journal of Law and Society, 45 (4). pp. 563-588. ISSN 0263-323X
Abstract
This article draws upon a series of interviews with Home Office Registered Forensic Pathologists to understand how they view and balance competing interests in a deceased body. The actions and professional ethos of this small group of doctors who carry out autopsies in suspicious death cases have very real consequences for both the living and dead. We need to understand the decisions that are being made about our bodies and the remains of those who matter to us, what motivates these and whether they stand up to scrutiny. It is argued that retributive justice both inspires the pathologists and justifies the distress that investigations of suspicious death can cause the bereaved. This approach aims to treat all parties humanely and with sensitivity, but without compromising the need for findings of criminal wrongdoing to be based on evidence and as the outcome of a fair legal process.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 The Author. Journal of Law and Society © 2018 Cardiff University Law School. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Jones, I (2018) It’s all about justice’: Bodies, Balancing Competing Interests and Suspicious Deaths. Journal of Law and Society, 45 (4). pp. 563-588. ISSN 0263-323X, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12130. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Sep 2018 11:07 |
Last Modified: | 08 May 2019 00:40 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/jols.12130 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:135602 |