tagung: “risky profiles: societal dimensions of forensic uses of dna analysis”
admin | 19 May, 2010Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, 2-3 July 2010
Abstract
Forensic uses of DNA technologies have become crucial elements of
national systems of criminal justice. In addition, as a result of
growing transnational mobility and the global use of information and
communication technologies crime and crime prevention issues are
increasingly addressed by agencies and policy actors beyond the national
state. In the European context, the so-called Prüm regime obliges law
enforcement authorities in all EU countries to render their forensic DNA
databases searchable for other member states by 2011 (at a match/no
match basis). This also means that countries which do not yet have
centralized forensic DNA databases need to establish them by that date.
In sum, the importance of forensic DNA databasing will continue to
increase in the political and public arenas across Europe.
While the legal and criminological implications of forensic and police
uses of DNA analysis and databasing have received ample attention in the
last decade, their societal dimensions have not been systematically
explored. Social science projects in this field are relatively scarce,
and there is virtually no comparative social science research on this
topic across countries. Our workshop aims to fill this gap: Social
scientists who pioneer(ed) work in this field will present their
research projects and engage in a dialogue with an eminent molecular
biologist in Portugal, António Amorim. A concluding round table
discussion will be dedicated to explicating current challenges faced by
social science research in the field of forensic DNA profiling and
datatabasing.
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