Documenting the Document: The Forensic Hospital Report and Its Knowledge Moves

Drawing on case files from a Canadian provincial review board tasked with determining the disposition of persons found ‘not criminally responsible account mental disorder’, we explore role forensic hospital report in production medico-legal risk knowledges. Through detailed study, show how report's content and particular material form allow Board to produce ‘significantly threatening individual’ – very thing (and report) are meant presuppose. We therefore call scholars document their documents, and, spirit actor-network theory (ANT), analytically treat socio-legal objects as active participants knowledge's creation. By accounting for ‘knowledge moves’ might allow, encourage, or prohibit human actors make, hope even ANT sceptics can use these tools better understand various legal decision-making processes effects.