Background Forensic DNA testing is a powerful tool used to identify, convict, and exonerate
individuals charged of criminal offenses, but there are different views on its benefits and …

Numerous major advances have been made in forensic genetics over the past decade. One
recent field of research has been focused on the analysis of External Visible Characteristics …

The face, just like DNA, is taken to represent a unique individual. This article proposes to
move beyond this representational model and to attend to the work that a face can do. I …

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 …

Automated facial recognition, the use of dactyloscopic data and advanced forensic DNA
analyses are becoming dominant technological surveillance means for …

This open access book uses a critical sociological perspective to explore contemporary
ways of reformulating the governance of crime through genetics. Through the lens of …

Forensic genetic genealogy, a technique leveraging new DNA capabilities and public
genetic databases to identify suspects, raises specific considerations in a law enforcement …

Forensic DNA phenotyping (FDP) encompasses a set of technologies aimed at predicting
phenotypic characteristics from genotypes. Advocates of FDP present it as the future of …

Human biological variation has historically been studied through the lens of racialization.
Despite a general shift away from the use of overt racial terminologies, the underlying …

Over the last two decades, the analysis of DNA traces found at a crime scene have
expanded the already established forensic DNA analysis for identification to include new …