Law, Practice and Politics of Forensic DNA Profiling

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

Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra and Jaime Enrique Castro Bermudez

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 Helen

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