Law, Practice and Politics of Forensic DNA Profiling

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.

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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.

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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