Samson Lim, Siam’s New Detectives: Visualizing Crime and Conspiracy in Modern Thailand Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. 232 pp. $65.00.

摘要

Siam’s New Detectives is a national case study that contributes to the burgeoning literature on the development of forensic and identification technologies in the twentieth century. Samson Lim chronicles the adoption of technologies of visualization, such as crime statistics, photography, fingerprinting, and crime scene drawing and mapping, as Thailand developed into an independent nation-state.