2022
DOI: 10.23987/sts.101384
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Genetic Racial Profiling

Abstract: 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 techniques intended to predict a criminal suspect’s externally visible characteristics, such as eye, hair and skin colour (‘forensic DNA phenotyping’), or his or her ethnic, continental or regional origin (‘biogeographical ancestry’). In this paper, we conduct a dispositive analysis to investigate how extended DNA analysis in forensics cataly… Show more

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“…The technology, several scholars have argued, works by generating 'racialised collectives' (Wade, 2020) in a setting that utilises material traits through the meaning of cultural bias about specific populations among wider audiences of such information (e.g. publics asked for fDp-informed eyewitness information in an investigation) (Bartram et al, 2021(Bartram et al, , 2022Skinner, 2020).…”
Section: The Circulation Of Legitimacy In Biometric Technologiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The technology, several scholars have argued, works by generating 'racialised collectives' (Wade, 2020) in a setting that utilises material traits through the meaning of cultural bias about specific populations among wider audiences of such information (e.g. publics asked for fDp-informed eyewitness information in an investigation) (Bartram et al, 2021(Bartram et al, , 2022Skinner, 2020).…”
Section: The Circulation Of Legitimacy In Biometric Technologiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, the absence of proof of necessity, if not a proof of absence, should at the very least be considered a legitimate obstacle to its legalization, pending the results of comprehensive and evidence-based research aiming at retrospective analysis of the concrete results it has brought in criminal investigation. However, because ‘no systematic data are available in its outcomes’ (Bartram et al 2022:55), conducting such research would require the creation of specific database where records of generated profiles and case linked would be registered, following a systematized format (Samuel and Prainsack, 2020) as well as the active collaboration of public authorities regarding access to this database. Thus, an impactful policy could consist in organizing such conditions for a retrospective analysis of the actual effect of FDP in criminal investigations.…”
Section: Assessing the Lawfulness Of Personal Data Processing: The El...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Earlier in the article, the ‘morphologic’ characters were described as ‘eye colour, skin colour and hair colour’. In the same manner, an American private laboratory (Parabon NanoLabs Inc.) claims on its website to be able to provide perfectly accurate ‘composite portraits’ that have led to arrests, when these images are generated using merely racial-typological stereotypes (Bartram et al, 2022; Wienroth, 2020a). Financial gains and conflicts of interests behind the legalization of FDP are thus to be kept in mind when gathering information on the tangible outcomes of the technology.…”
Section: Assessing the Lawfulness Of Personal Data Processing: The El...mentioning
confidence: 99%
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