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.

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