DDRIG: Science, Technology, Law and the Expansion of Bio/Surveillance

这个项目将记录执法部门使用DNA来研究DNA监视的复杂情况。该项目将确定DNA监测中涉及的行为者、文化逻辑、影响和机制。该项目的调查结果将为有兴趣在法律中更多地使用科学和技术的政策制定者提供见解和建议。此外，律师、刑事司法倡导者、执法部门、科学家和公民都是这项研究的潜在受众。该项目采用混合方法设计，包括人种学观察、档案数据分析、深度访谈和DNA数据库的统计分析。在DNA取证相关的网络研讨会、会议和培训上的档案研究和人种学观察将有助于理解DNA取证的全面扩展使用，包括关键参与者、逻辑和涉及的机制。档案和人种学数据将通过对主要利益攸关方的采访来补充，内容包括围绕扩大DNA使用的投资、动机、理由、紧张和矛盾。该项目还将包括对公开的DNA数据库信息进行量化分析，以了解执法部门扩大DNA使用的影响以及后果是如何分布的。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will document the use of DNA by law enforcement to study the complex landscape of DNA surveillance. The project will identify the actors, cultural logics, impacts, and mechanisms involved in DNA surveillance. Findings from this project will provide insights and recommendations for policy makers interested in addressing the increased use of science and technology in the law. In addition, lawyers, criminal justice advocates, law enforcement, scientists, and citizens are all potential audiences for this research. This project uses a mixed method design, including ethnographic observations, archival data analysis, in-depth interviews, and statistical analysis of DNA databases. Archival research and ethnographic observations at DNA forensic related webinars, conferences and trainings will help understand the overall expanded use of DNA forensics, including the key players, logics, and mechanisms involved. Archival and ethnographic data will be supplemented by interviews with key stakeholders on investments, motivations, justifications, tensions, and contradictions surrounding the expanded use of DNA. The project will also include a quantitative analysis of publicly available DNA database information to understand the impact of law enforcement’s expanded DNA use and how the consequences are distributed.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.