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Forensic geneticists have attempted to make the case for continued investment in forensic genetics research, despite its seemingly consolidated evidentiary role in criminal justice, by shifting the focus to technologies that can provide intelligence. Forensic DNA phenotyping (FDP) is one such emerging set of techniques, promising to infer external appearance and ancestry of an unknown person. On this example, I consider the repertoire of anticipatory practices deployed by scientists, expanding the concept to not only focus on promissory but also include epistemic and operational aspects of anticipatory work in science. I explore these practices further as part of anticipatory self-governance efforts, attending to the European forensic genetics community and its construction of FDP as a reliable and legitimate technology field for use in delivering public goods around security and justice. In this context, I consider three types of ordering devices that translate anticipatory practices into anticipatory self-governance.
Author(s): Wienroth M
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: New Genetics and Society
Year: 2018
Volume: 37
Issue: 2
Pages: 137-152
Online publication date: 07/05/2018
Acceptance date: 03/04/2018
Date deposited: 14/02/2018
ISSN (print): 1463-6778
ISSN (electronic): 1469-9915
Publisher: Routledge
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2018.1469975
DOI: 10.1080/14636778.2018.1469975
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