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Forensic Geneticists and the Transnational Exchange of DNA data in the EU: Engaging Science with Social Control, Citizenship and Democracy
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Politics of (non)belonging. Enacting imaginaries of affected publics through forensic genetic technologies
Publication . Amelung, Nina
This chapter examines the profound social, ethical and political implications of the use of forensic DNA phenotyping (FDP) technologies in Germany, a nation whose collective memory regarding genetics is still influenced by memories of its Nazi past and of how science was used in racialising genetics and the eugenics movement. Germany’s past has contributed to a strong sense of privacy regarding genetics and a general suspicion about state players accessing sensitive genetic information. Germany, therefore, offers a political-cultural context in which various stakeholders have a deep-seated awareness of the risks of racial discrimination, and where diverse safeguards are urgently needed to achieve acceptable and accountable technologies. Controversies remain due to unease concerning racialised legacies, and fears of aggravating racial bias in an effort to fix it. The author argues that, quite clearly from its history of race science and eugenics, particularly in the 20th century, to the criminalisation of migrants after the 2015 summer of migration in the 21st century, various discriminatory systems in different eras have produced and reproduced social divisions and inequalities, producing wider ecologies for the politics of belonging and non-belonging.
Governing expectations of forensic innovations in society: the case of FDP in Germany
Publication . Amelung, Nina; Machado, Helena
This article is about the governance of expectations of forensic DNA phenotyping (FDP) innovations in Germany used for the prediction of human externally visible traits such as eye, hair, and skin color, as well as biological age and biogeographic ancestry. In 2019, FDP technologies were regulated under the label “extended DNA analysis”. We focus on the expectations of members of the forensic genetics’ community in Germany, in anticipation and response to those of regulators who advocated for such technologies. Confronted with regulators’ expectations of omnipotent technologies and the optimistic promise that they will enhance public security, forensic geneticists responded with attempts to adjust such expectations, specifying limits and risks, along with a particular logic sorting matters of concern. We reflect on how forensic geneticists’ govern expectations through forms of distributed anticipatory governance, delimiting their obligations, and distributing accountability across the criminal justice system.
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European Commission
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H2020
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