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Law, Practice and Politics of Forensic DNA Profiling: Forensic Genetics and their Technolegal Worlds

Law, Practice and Politics of Forensic DNA Profiling: Forensic Genetics and their Technolegal Worlds

Author: Victor Toom; Matthias Wienroth; Amade M’charek
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032385280
Published In: December 2022
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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. 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, standardized, 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.

The volume will be 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.

1. Prologue, Robin Williams

2. Introduction: Forensic Genetics and the Politics of Technolegal Worlds, Victor Toom, Matthias Wienroth, Amade M’charek

PART I: DNA profiling and database governance

3. Brazil, Vitor Richter; 4. China and Hong Kong, Andra la Roux Kemp; 5. Colombia and its violent past, Maria Fernanda Olarte Sierra; 6. France, Vololona Rabeharisoa, Joelle Vailly, Gaelle Krikorian; 7. South Africa with view to its racialized history, Noah Tamarkin; 8. Transnational DNA profile exchange in Europe and beyond, Helena Machado et al.

PART II: New and emerging innovations and applications

9. Massive Parallel Sequencing, Roos Hopman, Irene van Oorschot, Amade M’charek; 10. RapidDNA, Dana Wilson-Kovacs; 11. Disaster Victim Identification, Victor Toom and Caroline Bennett; 12. Evidentiary collection in forensic nursing, Gethin Rees; 13. DNA in migration and border regimes; Torsten Voigt and Carole McGranahan

PART III: Issues of legitimacy

14. Ethics and solidarity in forensic DNA databases, Barbara Prainsack; 15. Commerce and forensic genetics, Matthias Wienroth & Chris Lawless; 16. Efficiency and effectiveness of criminal forensic DNA databasing, Karen Richmond, Aaron Amankwaa, or Carole McCartney; 17. Familial searching in ancestry and commercial databases, Anna Jabloner or Erin Murphy; 18. Epilogue, David Skinner