Systemic (mis)trust in technolegal worlds: Three key trust relationships in forensic genetics

Wienroth, Matthias (2022) Systemic (mis)trust in technolegal worlds: Three key trust relationships in forensic genetics. In: Law, Practice and Politics of Forensic DNA Profiling: Forensic Genetics and their Technolegal Worlds. Taylor & Francis, London, pp. 147-164. ISBN 9780367338497, 9781032385280, 9780429322358

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Abstract

The deployment of science in support of criminal justice objectives is subject to particular trust relationships. On the example of forensic genetics, this chapter discusses some features of criminal justice that treat trust as a local and fragile achievement, subject to constant and rigorous testing. This restlessness about the fragility of the achievement of trust is a constitutive and distinctive feature of criminal justice uses of science. This chapter considers the ways in which trust in forensic genetics is negotiated. It explores some of the multiple uses of the term trust in context together with the types of people who are invoked as part of three trust relationships – epistemic, operational and courtroom credibility – in order to explore the role of trust in organising technolegal worlds around the use of genetics in the criminal justice system. The chapter develops the concepts of systemic trust for forensic genetics in the criminal justice system, and technology of situated trustworthiness in order to characterise trust relationships here.

Item Type: Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords: Criminal justice system, forensic genetics, publics, systemic trust, trust, technology of situated trustworthiness
Subjects: F400 Forensic and Archaeological Science
M900 Other in Law
Department: Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Social Sciences
Depositing User: John Coen
Date Deposited: 13 Oct 2022 11:10
Last Modified: 31 Jan 2023 15:45
URI: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/50381

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