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Agency and structure in the history of DNA profiling: The stabilization and standardization of a new technology.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Agency and structure in the history of DNA profiling: The stabilization and standardization of a new technology./
Author:	Derksen, Linda Anne.
Description:	374 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-03, Section: A, page: 1101.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-03A.
Subject:	Sociology, Social Structure and Development. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3083460

Agency and structure in the history of DNA profiling: The stabilization and standardization of a new technology.
Derksen, Linda Anne.

Agency and structure in the history of DNA profiling: The stabilization and standardization of a new technology. - 374 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-03, Section: A, page: 1101.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2003.

DNA profiling has been called the most important forensic innovation since the introduction of fingerprints in the early 19th century. Before DNA profiling became a stable form of knowledge, it went through many crises, including "The DNA Wars." Using concepts from the sociology of scientific knowledge, this dissertation contributes to a theory of agency and structure that shows how the dynamics of agency and structure interacted in the case of DNA profiling, to create new knowledge and new forms of social structure. Data were drawn from in-depth personal interviews, scientific publications, transcripts of key court cases and Congressional hearings, judges' decisions, FBI documents, two National Research Council (NRC) reports, and technical and lay press coverage of the controversies.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Sociology, Social Structure and Development.

Agency and structure in the history of DNA profiling: The stabilization and standardization of a new technology.
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520 $a DNA profiling has been called the most important forensic innovation since the introduction of fingerprints in the early 19th century. Before DNA profiling became a stable form of knowledge, it went through many crises, including "The DNA Wars." Using concepts from the sociology of scientific knowledge, this dissertation contributes to a theory of agency and structure that shows how the dynamics of agency and structure interacted in the case of DNA profiling, to create new knowledge and new forms of social structure. Data were drawn from in-depth personal interviews, scientific publications, transcripts of key court cases and Congressional hearings, judges' decisions, FBI documents, two National Research Council (NRC) reports, and technical and lay press coverage of the controversies.
520 $a In the DNA Wars the country's most prestigious population geneticists mobilized their personal and institutional credibility to support or derail the new technology. In 1991 the NRC convened a committee of blue-ribbon representatives from the criminal justice system and academia to settle controversies surrounding the technology. Their recommendations met with widespread criticism, forcing the NRC to convene a second committee in 1994. While some groups were fighting bitterly over the procedural and computational aspects of DNA profiling, the FBI was quietly creating a community of practitioners, known as the Technical Working Group in DNA Methods (TWGDAM), who were instrumental in stabilizing, standardizing and disseminating DNA profiling procedures in North America.
520 $a This analysis shows that stable knowledge is produced in successful communities of practice---the first NRC committee's proposed solution to the knowledge problem failed, partly because they could not constitute themselves as a community. It also reveals that closure to scientific controversies is a complex process that can occur at different times for different groups. In this case "wars" raged in some social worlds (academia, the National Research Council), while order was quietly established in other arenas (Congress, the FBI, TWGDAM). The study also shows that we are misled if we believe that it is only scientists who produce and stabilize knowledge. Sound knowledge about DNA profiling was created from the activities of many individuals pursuing specific goals in disparate institutional contexts.
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