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The British Journal of Criminology 38:88-105 (1998)
© 1998 Centre for Crime & Justice Studies (formerly ISTD)

RESEARCH-ARTICLE

TRUE CRIME STORIES

Scientific Methods of Criminal Investigation, Criminology and Historiography

CLAIRE VALIER

Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.1 would like to thank the following for their recognition and financial assistance: the President and Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge for the election to a Munro Studentship, the Economic and Social Research Council for the award of a research studentship. The author thanks the following for their interest and advice: Professor Anthony Bottoms, FBA, Dr Michael Clark; Dr Catherine Crawford; Dr Vic Gatrell; Dr Lorainc Gelsthorpe; Professor Robert Reiner, Dr David Thomas, QC This paper is for my friend Cuillaume Métayer.

How can we catch the criminal? The history of criminology has had little to say about the place of scientific methods of criminal investigation in the discipline of criminology and in the redistribution of the power to punish that took place with the withdrawal of public execution. Thinking about this omission can act as a critical and reflexive exercise: why have we made a riddle of criminalily? Perhaps it is exactly the contours of this problem that mean that we consistently fail to catch the criminal. Perhaps there was never any mystery to be solved.


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