scholarly journals Should police have access to genetic genealogy databases? Capturing the Golden State Killer and other criminals using a controversial new forensic technique

PLoS Biology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. e2006906 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christi J. Guerrini ◽  
Jill O. Robinson ◽  
Devan Petersen ◽  
Amy L. McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Genealogy

Due process implications of law enforcement agencies using Investigative Genetic Genealogy to solve serious crimes

2021 ◽  
pp. 1037969X2110072
Author(s):  
Rhanee Rego ◽  
John Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Due Process ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Dna Databases ◽  
Genetic Genealogy ◽  
Legislative Reform ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Forensic Practice

Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) has opened up new frontiers in the search for the perpetrators of serious crimes. The pool of data held by consumer DNA databases has enabled law enforcement agencies to undertake database matching to find biological relatives of an unknown perpetrator. This relatively new forensic practice is not, however, without concerns when benchmarked against established norms of investigative practice and criminal procedure. The critical questions emerge: how should IGG be used and in what circumstances? In this article, we contend that the current laws in Australia are not capable of regulating IGG appropriately and legislative reform is required.

scholarly journals Sankofa, or “Go Back and Fetch It”: Merging Genealogy and Africana Studies—An Introduction

Genealogy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Kameelah Martin ◽  
Elizabeth West
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African Descent ◽  
The United States ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Africana Studies ◽  
Genetic Genealogy ◽  
Online Subscription

With the overwhelming popularity of genealogy-themed television series, genetic genealogy testing, online subscription services for research, and the enduring aphorism of Sankofa, people of African descent are consistently dispelling the long-avowed assertion that the ancestry of the enslaved in the United States and their descendants is, for the most part, unknowable. [...]

Privacy and genetic genealogy data

Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 361 (6405) ◽  
pp. 857.1-857 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen M. Greytak ◽  
David H. Kaye ◽  
Bruce Budowle ◽  
CeCe Moore ◽  
Steven L. Armentrout
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Genealogy

The Return of Biology

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rogers Brubaker
Keyword(s):  
Human Genome ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Human Genome Project ◽  
Genome Project ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Genetic Genealogy

This chapter analyzes the complex and ambivalent implications of the post-Human Genome Project “return of biology” for the theory and practice of race and ethnicity. Genetically informed accounts of difference risk reinforcing essentialist understandings of identity; yet they can also serve to undermine notions of racial or ethnic purity, highlighting instead the inextricable mixedness of all human populations and the genetic uniqueness of every individual. The chapter traces developments in biomedical research, forensics, genetic genealogy, and identity politics, and it concludes by outlining a constructivist response to the new objectivist and naturalist accounts of race and ethnicity.

scholarly journals An empirical investigation into the effectiveness of genetic genealogy to identify individuals in the UK

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 102263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Thomson ◽  
Tim Clayton ◽  
John Cleary ◽  
Maurice Gleeson ◽  
Debbie Kennett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Genetic Genealogy ◽  
The Uk
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