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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 scientific knowledge and genetic technology, Machado and Granja offer a unique perspective on current trends in crime governance. They explore the place and role of genetics in criminal justice systems, and show how classical and contemporary social theory can help address challenges posed by social processes and interactions generated by the uses, meanings, and expectations attributed to genetics in the governance of crime. Cutting-edge methods and research techniques are also integrated to address crucial aspects of this social reality. Finally, the authors examine new challenges emerging from recent paradigm shifts within forensic genetics, moving away from the construction of evidence as presented in court to the production of intelligence guiding criminal investigations.

The real heroes of television crime shows in the twenty-first century are no longer police detectives but forensic technologies. The immense popularity of high-tech crime television shows has changed the way in which crime scene work is viewed. The term 'CSI-effect' was coined to signify a situation where people's views and practices have been influenced by such media representations, e.g. judges and jurors putting more weight on forensic evidence that has been produced with high-tech tools - in particular, DNA evidence - than on other kinds of evidence. While considerable scholarly attention has been paid to examining the CSI effect on publics, jurors, judges, and police investigators, prisoners' views on forensic technologies and policing have been under-explored. Drawing on a research sample of over 50 interviews carried out with prisoners in Portugal and Austria, this groundbreaking book shows how prisoners view crime scene traces, how they understand crime scene technologies, and what effect they attribute to the existence of large police databases on their own lives, careers, and futures. Through critically engaging with STS, sociological and criminological perspectives on the use of DNA technologies within the criminal justice system, this work provides the reader with valuable insights into the effect of different legal, political, discursive, and historical configurations on how crime scene technologies are utilized by the police and related to by convicted offenders.

The real heroes of television crime shows in the twenty-first century are no longer police detectives but forensic technologies. The immense popularity of high-tech crime television shows has changed the way in which crime scene work is viewed. The term 'CSI-effect' was coined to signify a situation where people's views and practices have been influenced by such media representations, e.g. judges and jurors putting more weight on forensic evidence that has been produced with high-tech tools - in particular, DNA evidence - than on other kinds of evidence. While considerable scholarly attention has been paid to examining the CSI effect on publics, jurors, judges, and police investigators, prisoners' views on forensic technologies and policing have been under-explored. Drawing on a research sample of over 50 interviews carried out with prisoners in Portugal and Austria, this groundbreaking book shows how prisoners view crime scene traces, how they understand crime scene technologies, and what effect they attribute to the existence of large police databases on their own lives, careers, and futures. Through critically engaging with STS, sociological and criminological perspectives on the use of DNA technologies within the criminal justice system, this work provides the reader with valuable insights into the effect of different legal, political, discursive, and historical configurations on how crime scene technologies are utilized by the police and related to by convicted offenders.

Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control presents a new empirical and conceptual framework for understanding trends of genetic surveillance in different countries in Europe and in other jurisdictions around the world. The use of DNA or genome for state-level surveillance for crime governance is becoming the norm in democratic societies. In the post-DNA, contemporary modes of criminal identification are gradually changing through the increasing expansion of transnational sharing of DNA data, along with the development of highly controversial genetic technologies that pose acute challenges to privacy and generate fears of discrimination, racism and stigmatization. Some questions that guide this book are: How is genetic surveillance in the governance of crime intertwined with society, ethics, culture, and politics? What are the views and expectations of diverse stakeholders –scientists, police agencies, and non-governmental organizations? How can social sciences research about genetic surveillance accommodate socio-cultural and historical differences, and be sensitive to specificities of post-authoritarian societies in Europe? Taking an interdisciplinary approach focused on challenges to genetic privacy, human rights and citizenship in contemporary societies , this book will be of interest to students and scholars of social studies of science and technology, sociology, criminology, law and policing, international relations and forensic sciences.

This open access book explores how biometric data is increasingly flowing across borders in order to limit, control and contain the mobility of selected people, namely criminalized populations. It introduces the concept of bio-bordering, using it to capture reverse patterns of bordering and ordering practices linked to transnational biometric data exchange regimes. The concept is useful to reconstruct how the territorial foundations of national state autonomy are partially reclaimed and, at the same time, partially purposefully suspended. The book focuses on the Prüm system, which facilitates the mandatory exchange of forensic DNA data amongst EU Member States. The Prüm system is an underexplored phenomenon, representing diverse instances of bio-bordering and providing a complex picture of the hidden (dis)integration of Europe. Particular legal, scientific, technical and political dimensions related to the governance and uses of biometric technologies in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom are specifically explored to demonstrate both similar and distinct patterns.

From 1865-1866, James accompanied the director of the recently established Museum of Comparative Zoology on a research expedition to Brazil. This critical, bilingual (English-Portuguese) edition of his diaries and letters includes reproductions of his drawings. This original material belongs to the Houghton Archives at Harvard University.

'Traces of Louis Agassiz - Potography, Body and Science, yesterday and today/Rastros e raças de Louis Agassiz - Fotografia, corpo e ciência, ontem e hoje', edição bilíngue - Português/Inglês, apresenta parte da coleção fotográfica brasileira de Louis Agassiz, realizada no Rio de janeiro e em Manaus, no decorrer da expedição Thayer, dos anos de 1865 e 1866. Além disso, este livro é produto de encontro de profissionais de áreas diversas e de nacionalidades diferentes, incluindo historiadores, antropólogos, militantes anti-racistas, artistas, curadores e críticos de arte. Partindo do conjunto de fotografias raciais do século XIX, este livro apresenta uma reflexão a respeito de como tais imagens, provenientes de repositórios de crenças e saberes científicos superados, fazem parte da cultura visual e das políticas de rememoração e esquecimento do século XXI.

Memória de ninguém é sobre uma mulher em luto após a morte do pai. Prestes a completar quarenta anos, ela entra em crise profunda diante da passagem do tempo, de sua própria incapacidade de concretizar qualquer coisa. Ao retornar à antiga casa de infância, é atropelada por lembranças para as quais tenta dar um sentido: a relação com a mãe e as irmãs gêmeas, os distúrbios alimentares, as tragédias familiares, os relacionamentos abusivos. Do riso ao pranto, do grito ao silêncio, do cotidiano às questões existenciais, as memórias chegam em torvelinho. Pairando sobre elas, uma memória que, mesmo sem contorno, teima em não ser esquecida. Um trauma que parece não pertencer a ninguém.

Maria Helena Machado detém-se sobre as relações entre senhores e escravos nos municípios paulistas de Campinas e Taubaté, pesquisadas com base nos processos criminais de escravos, no período entre 1830 e a Abolição. Procura, assim, resgatar os comportamentos escravos em sua multiplicidade de formas e configurações históricas ao longo do tempo: enfocados como fato social, produto orgânico da vida cotidiana nas fazendas, determinados crimes recolocam o escravo como agente social e sujeito histórico, segundo a autora. Desgastar a dominação senhorial, onerá-la em sua amplitude e limitá-la através de resistências e confrontos revelaram-se como atos consequentes, pois permitiram aos escravos forjar espaços de sobrevivência e vida autônomas. Esta segunda edição vem acompanhada de três ensaios, nos quais a autora apresenta balanços da historiografia internacional e brasileira sobre o escravismo, e uma análise a respeito do cativeiro na cidade de São Paulo durante o Império.

A partir de uma pesquisa minuciosa e reveladora, Geminiana e seus filhos coloca em foco a sociedade de São Luís do Maranhão no ano de 1876, quando os meninos Inocêncio e Jacintho, nascidos pouco antes da Lei do Ventre Livre e mantidos sob jugo da baronesa Ana Rosa Viana Ribeiro foram torturados e assassinados por ela. Analisando os diferentes personagens envolvidos no caso e seus papéis, a obra denuncia um dos aspectos mais cruéis da sociedade escravagista brasileira do século XIX, ao mesmo tempo em que destaca a coragem de Geminiana e Simplícia, mãe e avó das crianças mortas, e da rede de resistência que se formava diante dos horrores da escravidão.