Governing anticipatory technology practices. Forensic DNA phenotyping and the forensic genetics community in Europe

Wienroth, Matthias (2018) Governing anticipatory technology practices. Forensic DNA phenotyping and the forensic genetics community in Europe. New Genetics and Society, 37 (2). pp. 137-152. ISSN 1463-6778

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2018.1469975

Abstract

Forensic geneticists have attempted to make the case for continued investment in forensic genetics research, despite its seemingly consolidated evidentiary role in criminal justice, by shifting the focus to technologies that can provide intelligence. Forensic DNA phenotyping (FDP) is one such emerging set of techniques, promising to infer external appearance and ancestry of an unknown person. On this example, I consider the repertoire of anticipatory practices deployed by scientists, expanding the concept to not only focus on promissory but also include epistemic and operational aspects of anticipatory work in science. I explore these practices further as part of anticipatory self-governance efforts, attending to the European forensic genetics community and its construction of FDP as a reliable and legitimate technology field for use in delivering public goods around security and justice. In this context, I consider three types of ordering devices that translate anticipatory practices into anticipatory self-governance.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Anticipatory practice, forensic DNA phenotyping, governance, ordering device
Subjects: C400 Genetics
L900 Others in Social studies
Department: Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Social Sciences
Depositing User: Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited: 09 Jun 2020 09:33
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2021 11:19
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/43382

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