Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control offers a new interdisciplinary framework for
understanding how deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is 'intertwined'with culture, ethics, politics …

Since its discovery, DNA analysis has been an important tool in criminal investigations: the
creation of national DNA databases, retaining the genetic profile of criminals, revealed to be …

Brazil is a continental country, that even after emerge as an economic power, continues to
have serious social problems. In the biotechnology field there are two divergent movements …

Since 2009, after a collaboration agreement with the United States' Federal Bureau of
Investigations (FBI), Brazil has increased its efforts to expand the use of forensic DNA …

Various events paved the way for the production of ethical norms regulating biomedical
practices, from the Nuremberg Code (1947)—produced by the international trial of Nazi …

DNA profiling has been assuming a prominent role in the activities of the criminal justice
system. Genetic technologies support criminal investigations, while also being seen as …

Over the last few decades, a series of concerns have been raised about DNA profiling and
databasing in the criminal justice system, in particular with relation to privacy and …

This paper aims to differentiate between the legal norms related to genetic data exchange
and the technical-scientific norms applied during biological sample collection and analysis …

Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control presents a new empirical and conceptual
framework for understanding trends of genetic surveillance in different countries in Europe …