Making sense of the story - the dialogues between the police and forensic laboratories in the construction of DNA evidence

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Autor(a) principal: Santos, Filipe
Data de Publicação: 2014
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/33349
Resumo: The use of DNA technologies for criminal investigation purposes illuminates an interplay of knowledge and expertise where meaning and relevance of biological traces are negotiated. Through the analysis of five criminal cases that took place in Portugal between 1995 and 2010, and where DNA technologies were used, this article will focus on the dialogues established between the police and the forensic laboratories. I will argue that, on the one hand, the police investigators uses of DNA technologies seek to legitimate and provide an external source of neutrality and objectivity to the constructed narratives surrounding the commission of a crime. On the other hand, laboratories and forensic experts engage in the delimitation and preservation of their professional autonomy by developing boundary work around their scientific expertise through the translation and conversion of criminal traces into scientific artifacts.
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spelling Making sense of the story - the dialogues between the police and forensic laboratories in the construction of DNA evidenceDNApolicecrimeforensic scienceboundary workScience & TechnologyArts & HumanitiesSocial SciencesThe use of DNA technologies for criminal investigation purposes illuminates an interplay of knowledge and expertise where meaning and relevance of biological traces are negotiated. Through the analysis of five criminal cases that took place in Portugal between 1995 and 2010, and where DNA technologies were used, this article will focus on the dialogues established between the police and the forensic laboratories. I will argue that, on the one hand, the police investigators uses of DNA technologies seek to legitimate and provide an external source of neutrality and objectivity to the constructed narratives surrounding the commission of a crime. On the other hand, laboratories and forensic experts engage in the delimitation and preservation of their professional autonomy by developing boundary work around their scientific expertise through the translation and conversion of criminal traces into scientific artifacts.This work was supported by the Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia under Grant [SFRH/BD/72253/2010], and through the project "Forensic DNA databasing in Portugal: Contemporary issues in ethics, practices and policy" [FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-009231], hosted at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal.Taylor and FrancisUniversidade do MinhoSantos, Filipe2014-05-192014-05-19T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1822/33349engSantos, F. (2014). Making sense of the story - the dialogues between the police and forensic laboratories in the construction of DNA evidence. New Genetics and Society, 33(2), 181-203. doi: 10.1080/14636778.2014.9161861463-677810.1080/14636778.2014.916186info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-21T12:20:46Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/33349Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T19:13:54.978867Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Making sense of the story - the dialogues between the police and forensic laboratories in the construction of DNA evidence
title Making sense of the story - the dialogues between the police and forensic laboratories in the construction of DNA evidence
spellingShingle Making sense of the story - the dialogues between the police and forensic laboratories in the construction of DNA evidence
Santos, Filipe
DNA
police
crime
forensic science
boundary work
Science & Technology
Arts & Humanities
Social Sciences
title_short Making sense of the story - the dialogues between the police and forensic laboratories in the construction of DNA evidence
title_full Making sense of the story - the dialogues between the police and forensic laboratories in the construction of DNA evidence
title_fullStr Making sense of the story - the dialogues between the police and forensic laboratories in the construction of DNA evidence
title_full_unstemmed Making sense of the story - the dialogues between the police and forensic laboratories in the construction of DNA evidence
title_sort Making sense of the story - the dialogues between the police and forensic laboratories in the construction of DNA evidence
author Santos, Filipe
author_facet Santos, Filipe
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Santos, Filipe
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv DNA
police
crime
forensic science
boundary work
Science & Technology
Arts & Humanities
Social Sciences
topic DNA
police
crime
forensic science
boundary work
Science & Technology
Arts & Humanities
Social Sciences
description The use of DNA technologies for criminal investigation purposes illuminates an interplay of knowledge and expertise where meaning and relevance of biological traces are negotiated. Through the analysis of five criminal cases that took place in Portugal between 1995 and 2010, and where DNA technologies were used, this article will focus on the dialogues established between the police and the forensic laboratories. I will argue that, on the one hand, the police investigators uses of DNA technologies seek to legitimate and provide an external source of neutrality and objectivity to the constructed narratives surrounding the commission of a crime. On the other hand, laboratories and forensic experts engage in the delimitation and preservation of their professional autonomy by developing boundary work around their scientific expertise through the translation and conversion of criminal traces into scientific artifacts.
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