Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control

This book presents a new empirical and conceptual framework for understanding the intersections between genetic technologies, technological systems for surveillance, and contemporary approaches to criminality.

Helena Machado is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minho, Portugal. Rafaela Granja is a researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS), University of Minho, Portugal.

Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Forensic genetics and genetic surveillance in Europe: a historical and sociological analysis 2. Transnational genetic surveillance in the EU: the case of the Prüm system 3. Genetic surveillance in European post-communist countries 4. The uses of familial searching in Europe: at the crossroads between expanding suspicion and historical reparation 5. Expanding genetic informativity through emerging technologies: the cases of forensic DNA phenotyping and next generation sequencing 6. Non-governmental organizations and the critique of genetic surveillance Concluding remarks