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This open access book explores how biometric data is increasingly
flowing across borders in order to limit, control and contain the
mobility of selected people, namely criminalized populations. It
introduces the concept of bio-bordering, using it to capture
reverse patterns of bordering and ordering practices linked to
transnational biometric data exchange regimes. The concept is
useful to reconstruct how the territorial foundations of national
state autonomy are partially reclaimed and, at the same time,
partially purposefully suspended. The book focuses on the Prum
system, which facilitates the mandatory exchange of forensic DNA
data amongst EU Member States. The Prum system is an underexplored
phenomenon, representing diverse instances of bio-bordering and
providing a complex picture of the hidden (dis)integration of
Europe. Particular legal, scientific, technical and political
dimensions related to the governance and uses of biometric
technologies in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and the
United Kingdom are specifically explored to demonstrate both
similar and distinct patterns.
This open access book uses a critical sociological perspective to
explore contemporary ways of reformulating the governance of crime
through genetics. Through the lens of scientific knowledge and
genetic technology, Machado and Granja offer a unique perspective
on current trends in crime governance. They explore the place and
role of genetics in criminal justice systems, and show how
classical and contemporary social theory can help address
challenges posed by social processes and interactions generated by
the uses, meanings, and expectations attributed to genetics in the
governance of crime. Cutting-edge methods and research techniques
are also integrated to address crucial aspects of this social
reality. Finally, the authors examine new challenges emerging from
recent paradigm shifts within forensic genetics, moving away from
the construction of evidence as presented in court to the
production of intelligence guiding criminal investigations.
Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control presents a new empirical and
conceptual framework for understanding trends of genetic
surveillance in different countries in Europe and in other
jurisdictions around the world. The use of DNA or genome for
state-level surveillance for crime governance is becoming the norm
in democratic societies. In the post-DNA, contemporary modes of
criminal identification are gradually changing through the
increasing expansion of transnational sharing of DNA data, along
with the development of highly controversial genetic technologies
that pose acute challenges to privacy and generate fears of
discrimination, racism and stigmatization. Some questions that
guide this book are: How is genetic surveillance in the governance
of crime intertwined with society, ethics, culture, and politics?
What are the views and expectations of diverse stakeholders
-scientists, police agencies, and non-governmental organizations?
How can social sciences research about genetic surveillance
accommodate socio-cultural and historical differences, and be
sensitive to specificities of post-authoritarian societies in
Europe? Taking an interdisciplinary approach focused on challenges
to genetic privacy, human rights and citizenship in contemporary
societies , this book will be of interest to students and scholars
of social studies of science and technology, sociology,
criminology, law and policing, international relations and forensic
sciences.
Based on the premise that the project of Western Modernity is a
structuring element of our societies, Racism and Racial
Surveillance explores in detail its legacies of coloniality and
racialization that interfere in a subtle and perverse way in the
current social, cultural and political systems. Guided by an
interdisciplinary methodology, the various contributions privilege
historical contexts of colonial formation and offer a thorough and
intersectional analysis on the specters of coloniality in the
upsurge of racism, surveillance, and criminalization, as well as
the presence of the phantom of the race in spaces of knowledge
production such as that of artistic field, forensic genetics and
criminal identification. Drawing on multi case studies the book
then proffers key concepts and historical background that will be
of interest to researchers, students and professionals in a broad
range of areas of social sciences and humanities research,
including fields such as criminology and policing, science and
technology studies, arts studies, literary studies, race and ethnic
studies and, finally, memory studies. Chapters 8, 9 and 10 of this
book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the
individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license.
The real heroes of television crime shows in the twenty-first
century are no longer police detectives but forensic technologies.
The immense popularity of high-tech crime television shows has
changed the way in which crime scene work is viewed. The term
'CSI-effect' was coined to signify a situation where people's views
and practices have been influenced by such media representations,
e.g. judges and jurors putting more weight on forensic evidence
that has been produced with high-tech tools - in particular, DNA
evidence - than on other kinds of evidence. While considerable
scholarly attention has been paid to examining the CSI effect on
publics, jurors, judges, and police investigators, prisoners' views
on forensic technologies and policing have been under-explored.
Drawing on a research sample of over 50 interviews carried out with
prisoners in Portugal and Austria, this groundbreaking book shows
how prisoners view crime scene traces, how they understand crime
scene technologies, and what effect they attribute to the existence
of large police databases on their own lives, careers, and futures.
Through critically engaging with STS, sociological and
criminological perspectives on the use of DNA technologies within
the criminal justice system, this work provides the reader with
valuable insights into the effect of different legal, political,
discursive, and historical configurations on how crime scene
technologies are utilized by the police and related to by convicted
offenders.
The real heroes of television crime shows in the twenty-first
century are no longer police detectives but forensic technologies.
The immense popularity of high-tech crime television shows has
changed the way in which crime scene work is viewed. The term
'CSI-effect' was coined to signify a situation where people's views
and practices have been influenced by such media representations,
e.g. judges and jurors putting more weight on forensic evidence
that has been produced with high-tech tools - in particular, DNA
evidence - than on other kinds of evidence. While considerable
scholarly attention has been paid to examining the CSI effect on
publics, jurors, judges, and police investigators, prisoners' views
on forensic technologies and policing have been under-explored.
Drawing on a research sample of over 50 interviews carried out with
prisoners in Portugal and Austria, this groundbreaking book shows
how prisoners view crime scene traces, how they understand crime
scene technologies, and what effect they attribute to the existence
of large police databases on their own lives, careers, and futures.
Through critically engaging with STS, sociological and
criminological perspectives on the use of DNA technologies within
the criminal justice system, this work provides the reader with
valuable insights into the effect of different legal, political,
discursive, and historical configurations on how crime scene
technologies are utilized by the police and related to by convicted
offenders.
This open access book explores how biometric data is increasingly
flowing across borders in order to limit, control and contain the
mobility of selected people, namely criminalized populations. It
introduces the concept of bio-bordering, using it to capture
reverse patterns of bordering and ordering practices linked to
transnational biometric data exchange regimes. The concept is
useful to reconstruct how the territorial foundations of national
state autonomy are partially reclaimed and, at the same time,
partially purposefully suspended. The book focuses on the Prum
system, which facilitates the mandatory exchange of forensic DNA
data amongst EU Member States. The Prum system is an underexplored
phenomenon, representing diverse instances of bio-bordering and
providing a complex picture of the hidden (dis)integration of
Europe. Particular legal, scientific, technical and political
dimensions related to the governance and uses of biometric
technologies in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and the
United Kingdom are specifically explored to demonstrate both
similar and distinct patterns.
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