Law, Practice and Politics of Forensic DNA Profiling

Forensic Genetics and Their Technolegal Worlds
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-33849-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Toom, Victor

Wienroth, Matthias

M'Charek, Amade

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Rechtsmedizin, Forensik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Schul-, Hochschul- und Prüfungsrecht, Wissenschaftsrecht, Forschung
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Umweltrecht allg., Technikrecht, Immissionsschutzrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Strafverfahrens- und -prozessrecht, Strafverteidigung und Opferschutz
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.