Episode 7: Ethics as Lived Practice. Anticipatory Capacity and Ethical Decision-Making in Forensic Genetics with Dr. Matthias Wienroth and Dr. Carole McCartney, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne

Secrets From the Crime Lab

New Technology is great...but let's use it to catch the right person. In this episode I spoke with Professors Dr. Matthias Wienroth and Dr. Carol McCartney, two of the authors of "Ethics as Lived Practice. Anticipatory Capacity and Ethical Decision-Making in Forensic Genetics". It's a fascinating discussion about forensic genetics and the rapidly evolving technologies from the perspective of a social scientist and law professor.
Read the full text article: Ethics as Lived Practice. Anticipatory Capacity and Ethical Decision-Making in Forensic Genetics
Works/News mentioned in the episode:
Nuffield Report. The forensic use of bioinformation: ethical issues
Marper Case - European court rules DNA database breaches human rights
The effectiveness of the UK national DNA database
The murder of Rachel Nickell
Phantom of Heilbron
Dr Carole McCartney is a Professor in the School of Law, Northumbria University. Previously senior lecturer in criminal law and criminal justice at the University of Leeds, and Bond University, Queensland, Australia. Carole has written on Australian justice, Innocence Projects, miscarriages of justice, policing cooperation, and DNA, forensic science and criminal justice more widely. She established an Innocence Project at the University of Leeds in 2005...Learn More about Dr. McCartney
Dr. Matthias Wienroth has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, he is a founding member of the of the interdisciplinary scientific initiative on new and emerging forensic genetics technologies WIE-DNA (Germany) ...He is a member of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for Studies of Science and Technology (EASST). Since 2015, he has been building an interdisciplinary and international network for the Social Studies of Forensic Science..." Learn More about Dr. Weinroth
Additional works by Dr. Wienroth:
EUROFORGEN and Sense About Science booklet on forensic genetics

https://senseaboutscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/making-sense-of-forensic-genetics.pdf
Others articles:

• Value beyond scientific validity: let’s RULE (Reliability, Utility, LEgitimacy)
• Governing anticipatory technology practices. Forensic DNA phenotyping and the forensic genetics community in Europe

Misuse of Romani genetic data:

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03416-3
• https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/science/genetics-ethics-roma.html

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