Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction: crime: truth, intentionality and evidence -- 1 Questioning the truth: ideals of justice and trial techniques in India -- 2 Evidence, certainty, and doubt: judge's knowledge in Iranian criminal sanctioning -- 3 The (ir)relevance of self-avowals in the interpretation of criminal evidence -- 4 On intentionality in Mafia crimes -- 5 Crime, intentionality and blood money in Algeria and Sudan -- 6 "To lose oneself while acting": crime and forgiveness in the Mixe highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico -- 7 Translating evidentiary practices and technologies of truth finding: oath taking as witness testimony in plural legal configurations in rural Morocco -- 8 A faded narrative: reconstruction and restitution in medico-legal expertise in India -- 9 Technologies of truth and access to justice: becoming an apartheid victim in contemporary South Africa -- Index