On trial! Governing forensic DNA technologies in the USA

Trumping Communitarianism: Crime Control and Forensic DNA Typing and Databasing in Singapore

“…Etzioni's claim and the UAE project both show that the common good defined as controlling crime (potentially) trumps the individual, their rights and due process. In other jurisdictions, where individuals and due process are weighted more heavily than plain 'safety' or the 'war against crime', forensic DNA practices may be rolled out more prudently such as in the USA or the Netherlands (Aronson 2010;Toom 2012b). …”

Is an FBI Agent a DIY Biologist Like Any Other? A Cultural Analysis of a Biosecurity Risk

“…5 Similarly, the literature on the FBI is not very helpful in our case, as it does not provide an understanding of how the Bureau engages with actors regarding biosecurity risks. If intelligence and police services are now a common object of interest for science and technology studies scholars, this is mostly due to their adoption of forensic technologies and the administration of proof that they enable (Lynch et al 2008;Aronson 2010), or because of their reliance upon scientific expertise in the assessment of biosecurity issues related to life science (Vogel 2013). Our work instead invites the reader to consider a case where the border between suspect and expert is not given in advance.…”

The Société Européenne de Culture's Dialogue Est-Ouest 1956: Confronting the ‘European Problem’

“…103 In the mid-1950s, the SEC's Executive Council had been watching the reappraisal of the intellectual as an effective political agent that the French independent left had been undertaking, punctuated by Adventures of the Dialectic, and also by Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins and Raymond Aron's The Opium of the Intellectuals, and its members agreed that the reappraisal constituted a good case study of the problems confronting Europe's intelligentsia as a whole. 104 If, as Aronson has observed, the quarrel between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty in particular 'focused the political and intellectual tensions of an entire generation', 105 those tensions were also dividing a continent, and a world, the very problem that the SEC had been created to resolve. And if many of the Dialogue's participants had been looking for shared cultural values beyond ideology as a means to this resolution, the goal of the Dialogue, in Sartre's view, should be far more restricted.…”