Law, Practice and Politics of Forensic DNA Profiling

Forensic Genetics and their Technolegal Worlds

Victor Toom, Matthias Wienroth, Amade M’charek (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-38528-0 (ISBN)

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This collection reviews developments in DNA profiling across jurisdictions with a focus on scientific and technological advancement as well as the political and socio-legal impact.

This collection reviews developments in DNA profiling across jurisdictions with a focus on scientific and technological developments as well as their political, ethical, and socio-legal aspects. Written by leading scholars in the fields of social studies of forensic science, science and technology studies and socio-legal studies, the book provides state-of-the-art analyses of forensic DNA practices in a diverse range of jurisdictions, new and emerging forensic genetics technologies and issues of legitimacy.

The work articulates the various forms of technolegal politics involved in the everyday, standardised and emerging practices of forensic genetics and engages with the most recent scholarly and policy literature. In analyses of empirical cases, and by taking into account the most recent technolegal developments, the book explores what it means to live in a world that is increasingly governed through anticipatory crime control and its related risk management and bio-surveillance mechanisms, which intervene with and produce political and legal subjectivities through human bodies in their DNA.

This volume is an invaluable resource for those working in the areas of social studies of forensic science, science and technology studies, socio-legal studies, sociology, anthropology, ethics, law, politics and international relations.

Dr Victor Toom is scientific staff at the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy, The Hague, the Netherlands. Dr Matthias Wienroth, Centre for Crime and Policing, Department of Social Sciences, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Amade M’charek is Professor of Anthropology of Science at the Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

Introduction

1 Forensic genetics and their technolegal worlds: The law, practices and politics of forensic DNA profiling: Introduction

Victor Toom, Matthias Wienroth and Amade M’charek

Part I DNA profiling and database governance

2 Technolegal worlds in an armed conflict: The forensic making of victims in Colombia

María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra and Jaime Enrique Castro Bermúdez

3 Travelling promises: Forensic DNA databases in Brazil’s technolegal setting

Vitor Richter and Luiza Louzada

4 Forensic DNA analysis and database governance in Ghana

Aaron Opoku Amankwaa and Judith Amankwa Addo

5 Legislating forensic genetics in South Africa: Science, justice and the occlusion of race in postapartheid DNA databasing

Noah Tamarkin

Part II New and emerging innovations and applications

6 From promise to practice: Anticipatory work and the adoption of massive parallel sequencing in forensics

Roos Hopman, Irene van Oorschot and Amade M’charek

7 Deliberating forensic genetics innovations: The case of rapid DNA technologies in England and Wales

Dana Wilson-Kovacs

8 Emerging forensic genetic technologies: Contested anticipations of legitimation, caution and social situatedness

Christopher James Lawless

Part III Issues of legitimacy

9 Systemic (mis)trust in technolegal worlds: Three key trust relationships in forensic genetics

Matthias Wienroth

10 Why is DNA not enough? The multiple temporalities of family reunification in Finland

Anna-Maria Tapaninen and Ilpo Helén

11 Evaluating forensic DNA databases

Carole McCartney and Aaron Amankwaa

12 The stakes of forensic phenotypic profiling: Can solidarity help?

Barbara Prainsack and Gabrielle Samuel

13 Conceptions of consent, family and jurisdiction in forensic genetic genealogical searches

Erin Murphy

Epilogue

14 Technolegal policies and practices: Studying the past, present and future of forensic genetics

David Skinner

Erscheinungsdatum	16.12.2022
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-032-38528-6 / 1032385286
ISBN-13	978-1-032-38528-0 / 9781032385280
Zustand	Neuware