Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control

Abstract

This amazing book brings original empirical and conceptual work on forensic genetic technologies in Europe into a dialogue with insights from surveillance studies, critical race theory, Science and Technology Studies, and other relevant fields. I highly recommend it to everyone with an interest in changing notions of social control and citizenship in Europe and beyond. This book provides a timely addition to scholarship on the role of new forensic technologies in the governance of crime. Taking the Prüm system as its starting point and empirical focus, the argument considers different contexts of science production, actors and agencies and the unfolding imaginaries, practices and power relations at play. Making a compelling case for the social study of forensic technologies in situ, the writing illuminates the evolving understandings of biological citizenship, biosociality and inequality. The multi-level analysis is a great resource for all those who wish to have a more informed perspective on the cen-tralised modes of surveillance enabled through forensic genetics across the united Europe.