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

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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. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Bibliographical details Introduction 1 Forensic genetics and their technolegal worlds Part I DNA profiling and database governance 2 Technolegal worlds in an armed conflict: The forensic making of victims in Colombia 3 Travelling promises: Forensic DNA databases in Brazil’s technolegal setting 4 Forensic DNA analysis and database governance in Ghana 5 Legislating forensic genetics in South Africa: Science, justice and the occlusion of race in postapartheid DNA databasing Part II New and emerging innovations and applications 6 From promise to practice: Anticipatory work and the adoption of massive parallel sequencing in forensics 7 Deliberating forensic genetics innovations: The case of rapid DNA technologies in England and Wales 8 Emerging forensic genetic technologies: Contested anticipations of legitimation, caution and social situatedness Part III Issues of legitimacy 9 Systemic (mis)trust in technolegal worlds: Three key trust relationships in forensic genetics 10 Why is DNA not enough?: The multiple temporalities of family reunification in Finland 11 Evaluating forensic DNA databases 12 The stakes of forensic phenotypic profiling: Can solidarity help? 13 Conceptions of consent, family and jurisdiction in forensic genetic genealogical searches Epilogue 14 Technolegal policies and practices: Studying the past, present and future of forensic genetics Index