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Granja, Rafaela & Machado, H. (2023). Forensic DNA phenotyping and its politics of legitimation and contestation: Views of forensic geneticists in Europe. Social Studies of Science. 53 (6), 1-19

G. Rafaela and H. C. Machado,  "Forensic DNA phenotyping and its politics of legitimation and contestation: Views of forensic geneticists in Europe", in Social Studies of Science, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 1-19, 2023

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	author = "Granja, Rafaela and Machado, H.",
	title = "Forensic DNA phenotyping and its politics of legitimation and contestation: Views of forensic geneticists in Europe",
	journal = "Social Studies of Science",
	year = "2023",
	volume = "53",
	number = "6",
	doi = "tps://doi.org/10.1177/0306312720945033",
	pages = "1-19",
	url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306312720945033"
}

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Forensic DNA phenotyping and its politics of legitimation and contestation: Views of forensic geneticists in Europe
T2  - Social Studies of Science
VL  - 53
IS  - 6
AU  - Granja, Rafaela
AU  - Machado, H.
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SP  - 1-19
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DO  - tps://doi.org/10.1177/0306312720945033
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AB  - Forensic DNA Phenotyping (FDP) is a set of techniques that aim to infer externally visible
characteristics in humans – such as eye, hair and skin color – and biogeographical ancestry of an
unknown person, based on biological material. FDP has been applied in various jurisdictions in a
limited number of high-profile cases to provide intelligence for criminal investigations. There are
on-going controversies about the reliability and validity of FDP, which come together with debates
about the ethical challenges emerging from the use of this technology in the criminal justice system.
Our study explores how, in the context of complex politics of legitimation of and contestation
over the use of FDP, forensic geneticists in Europe perceive this technology’s potential
applications, utility and risks. Forensic geneticists perform several forms of discursive boundary
work, making distinctions between science and the criminal justice system, experts and nonexperts,
and good and bad science. Such forms of boundary work reconstruct the complex
positioning vis-à-vis legal and scientific realities. In particular, while mobilizing interest in FDP,
forensic geneticists simultaneously carve out notions of risk, accountability and scientific conduct
that perform distance from FDP’ implications in the criminal justice system.
ER  -