Sperm bank failed to reveal donor's criminal record and schizophrenia, couple alleges

BMJ ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 350 (apr14 16) ◽  
pp. h2001-h2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Dyer
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Record ◽  
Sperm Bank

Risk and the Spectral Politics of Disability

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Fritsch ◽  
Anne McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Record ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Sperm Bank ◽  
History Of ◽  
Do So

Drawing on the institutional history of the sperm bank and legacies of eugenics, we consider how spectrums of risk simultaneously constrain and expand possibilities for disability justice. We do so by examining the discourses surrounding US-based Xytex Corporation sperm bank Donor 9623, described as the ‘perfect’ donor but later discovered to have a criminal record and a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Haunted by the dread of disability, we examine how parents mark the fate of their donor-conceived child on a graded spectrum of genetic and psychiatric risk, in need of perpetual monitoring and intervention. Using this case to understand the contemporary reorganization of disability via spectral risk, we advocate for a critical engagement with how disability haunting can enable us to better attend to the effects of the past and present in such a way that provokes a more collectively just future.

Zur Medialität der Samenbank, oder: die Nacht der Substanz

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-62
Author(s):  
Nicole C. Karafyllis
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Sperm Bank ◽  
Cooling Chamber

Die moderne Samenbank lässt sich mit Medienbegriffen beschreiben, von Bestand bis Infrastruktur. Stets bleibt als blinder Fleck die Medialität des Samens, dessen Vitalität im Dunkel der Kühlkammer künstlich verlängert wird. Der Beitrag diskutiert Varianten, das Problem der Teleologie der Natur in Medienbegriffen abzuhandeln und bietet eine neue Geschichte von ›den Bienen und den Blumen‹. Er hebt den Samen als Inbegriff einer nicht reduzierbaren Substanz hervor, dessen Latenz als mediales Apriori des Lebenden begreifbar wird. A modern sperm bank can actually be described by using media terms such as ›stock‹ or ›infrastructure‹. However, the mediality of sperm seems to be persistently lingering in a blind spot, its vitality artificially prolonged in the dark of the cooling chamber. This article discusses different variants to treat the problem of describing the teleology of nature with the help of media terms and offers a new take on the story of ›the birds and the bees‹. The argumentation stresses the importance of sperm as the very quintessence of a non-reducible substance whose latency as a medial a priori of life thus becomes palpable

Towards the Creation of a European Criminal Record

2012 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 777-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Xavier Roux-Demare
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Record ◽  
The Creation

scholarly journals Digitizing and Disclosing Personal Data: The Proliferation of State Criminal Records on the Internet

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Lageson ◽  
Elizabeth Webster ◽  
Juan R. Sandoval
Keyword(s):  
Personal Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Criminal Record ◽  
Criminal Records ◽  
Public Records ◽  
Internet Privacy ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
Public Disclosures

Digitization and the release of public records on the Internet have expanded the reach and uses of criminal record data in the United States. This study analyzes the types and volume of personally identifiable data released on the Internet via two hundred public governmental websites for law enforcement, criminal courts, corrections, and criminal record repositories in each state. We find that public disclosures often include information valuable to the personal data economy, including the full name, birthdate, home address, and physical characteristics of arrestees, detainees, and defendants. Using administrative data, we also estimate the volume of data disclosed online. Our findings highlight the mass dissemination of pre-conviction data: every year, over ten million arrests, 4.5 million mug shots, and 14.7 million criminal court proceedings are digitally released at no cost. Post-conviction, approximately 6.5 million current and former prisoners and 12.5 million people with a felony conviction have a record on the Internet. While justified through public records laws, such broad disclosures reveal an imbalance between the “transparency” of data releases that facilitate monitoring of state action and those that facilitate monitoring individual people. The results show how the criminal legal system increasingly distributes Internet privacy violations and community surveillance as part of contemporary punishment.

Some Crimonolgical and Psychiatric Aspects of Homicide in Iceland

1982 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisli H. Gudjonsson ◽  
Hannes Petursson
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Criminal Record ◽  
Drug Dependency ◽  
The Relationship

This paper investigates the relationship between some criminological and psychiatric aspects of homicide in Iceland for the period 1900–1979. During this period there were 45 homicide incidents, involving 52 victims and 47 offenders. 16 (34·0 per cent) of the offenders were considered to be psychiatrically ill or subnormal at the time of their offence and a further 17 (36·2 per cent) suffered from personality disorder, alcoholism or drug dependency. A relationship was found between psychiatric abnormality and such variables as day and time of offence, previous criminal record, method of killing, relationship between victim and offender, motive, and action after offence. These findings are generally consistent with previous homicide research.

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