FORCE – Forensic Culture in Europe, 1930-2000

Publications

Pauline Dirven, Embodied Performances of Forensic Expertise: Epistemic Virtues, Gender, and Emotions in British Forensic Culture 1920-1980 (PhD thesis Utrecht University, defended 6 Sept. 2024)

Willemijn Ruberg and Sara Serrano Martínez, ‘Pathologization, Gender and Law in Cases of Infanticide in Spain and the Netherlands in the Mid-Twentieth Century: A Comparative Perspective‘, Law and History Review (2024) 1-24 doi:10.1017/S0738248023000652

Pauline Dirven, ‘Detached from Sympathy, Unconscious of Trauma. The Impact of the Forensic Virtues of Impartiality and Detachment on Rape Examinations in Britain 1924-1978′, Social History of Medicine (2024) (advanced access; https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad097

Sara Serrano Martínez, The Infanticide Article under Franco, 1937–1963. ‘Leniency’, judicial discretion and forensic knowledge (PhD thesis, defended 3 Nov. 2023)

Willemijn Ruberg, ‘Bodily Integrity and the Bodily Turn’, Lucas Graduate Journal 10 (2023) 10-12

Willemijn Ruberg, ‘De forensisch psychiater in de jaren 1950: gezaghebbend expert of gissende wetenschapper?’, Wonderkamer 8 (Dec. 2023) 70-75

Forensic Cultures in Modern Europe, edited by Willemijn Ruberg, Lara Bergers, Pauline Dirven and Sara Serrano Martínez (Manchester University Press, 2023)

Martínez, Sara Serrano, ‘Forensic physicians and the Francoist prosecution of infanticide, 1939-1969: The case of the haemorrhage of the umbilical cord as cause of death’, in: Lara Bergers, Pauline Dirven, Willemijn Ruberg and Sara Serrano Martínez (eds), Forensic Cultures in Modern Europe (Manchester University Press, 2023) 191-215

Dirven, Pauline, ‘Sober suits, bowler hats and white lab coats: Enclothed impartiality and the tailoring of a bourgeois expert persona in British courtrooms, 1920-1960’, in: Lara Bergers, Pauline Dirven, Willemijn Ruberg and Sara Serrano Martínez (eds), Forensic Cultures in Modern Europe (Manchester University Press, 2023) 117-146

Parfenchyk, Volha and Willemijn Ruberg, ‘Doing law, psychiatric expertise and “crimes of passion” in the Netherlands and Russia in the twentieth century’, in: Lara Bergers, Pauline Dirven, Willemijn Ruberg and Sara Serrano Martínez (eds), Forensic Cultures in Modern Europe (Manchester University Press, 2023) 216-239

Bergers, Lara, ‘A culture of testimony. The importance of ‘speaking witnesses’ in Dutch sexual crimes investigations and trials, 1930-1960’,  in: Lara Bergers, Pauline Dirven, Willemijn Ruberg and Sara Serrano Martínez (eds), Forensic Cultures in Modern Europe (Manchester University Press, 2023) 49-70

Ruberg, Willemijn, ‘Introduction’, in: Lara Bergers, Pauline Dirven, Willemijn Ruberg and Sara Serrano Martínez (eds), Forensic Cultures in Modern Europe (Manchester University Press, 2023) 1-24

Ruberg, Willemijn, ‘Embodiment and Experience‘, HEX Handbook (20 February 2023).

Ruberg, Willemijn, and Siska van der Plas, ‘An astonishing human failure’. The influence of gender on the image of perpetrators of infanticide in the courtroom and crime reporting in the Netherlands, 1960-1989. The History of the Family. An international Quarterly 28:1 (2023) 17-36  (published advance access on 12 April 2022)

Ruberg, Willemijn. ‘Hysteria as a Shape-Shifting Forensic Psychiatric Diagnosis in the Netherlands ca. 1885-1960′, Gender & History (21 March 2022).

Serrano Martínez, Sara. ‘Infanticidio y medicina legal‘. Saberes en acción (10 February 2022).

Ruberg, Willemijn. ‘Violencia sexual, medicina y ley‘. Saberes en acción (3 February 2022)

Ruberg, Willemijn. ‘Vaccinatie is niet per se een inbreuk op lichamelijke integriteit’, NRC Handelsblad, (4 Aug. 2021)

Dirven, P.E.A.M. and Lucija Balikic, conference report on Motions of Knowledge – Knowledge in Motion. Conceptualizing Knowledge Circulation for Historical Research https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-8947, 20 May 2021.

Dirven, Pauline. ‘Vertrouwen in Vingerafdrukken, Schedelfoto’s en Bloedvlekken: Hoe een forensisch team het vertrouwen van de rechter en het grote publiek won in Groot-Brittannië (1935-1936)’, Wonderkamer 2 (2021), 25-29

Ruberg, W.G., Infanticide and the influence of psychoanalysis on Dutch forensic psychiatry in the mid-twentieth century’, History of Psychiatry 32:2 (2021).

Bergers, L. (December 2020). ‘De mislukte introductie van de leugendetector,’ Wonderkamer 2, 25-29.

Dirven, P.E.A.M. (July 2020). Ballet, an Empowering Embodied Experience – A Feminist Phenomenological Analysis of Ballerinas’ BodiesLocus.Tijdschrift voor Cultuurwetenschappen.

Ruberg, W.G. (2019). Belichaming en ervaring: fenomenologie en de lichaamsgeschiedenis. Locus.Tijdschrift voor Cultuurwetenschappen.

Serrano Martínez, S. (2019). Concepciones médicas y psicológicas del suicidio en España (1926-1936)Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica, 12-13.

Ruberg, W.G. (2019). The Criminal’s Hair: Forensic Practices (1600–1945)’, in: Justyna Jajszcok & Aleksandra Museal (eds.),The Body in History, Culture, and the Arts (London: Routledge, 2019) 117-129.

Ruberg, W.G. (2019). ‘Expertise in gerechtsdossiers. De praktijk van de forensische psychiatrie in Nederland, 1811-1930’,De Moderne Tijd 3:1 (2019) 28-50.

Reviews

Willemijn Ruberg, (2023). book review E. Claire Cage, The Science of Proof: Forensic Medicine in Modern France Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Law and History Review, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0738248023000445

 

Willemijn Ruberg, Review of Joanna Bourke, Disgrace. Global Reflections on Sexual Violence (London: Reaktion Books, 2022). TSEG – The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History 20:1 (2023), 200-202

Sara Serrano Martínez, Cassia Roth, A Miscarriage of Justice. Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil. TSEG – The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, 17:3 (2020) 173–176.