Helena Machado is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minho, Portugal.

Rafaela Granja is a researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS), University of Minho, Portugal.

Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Forensic genetics and genetic surveillance in Europe: a historical and sociological analysis 2. Transnational genetic surveillance in the EU: the case of the Prüm system 3. Genetic surveillance in European post-communist countries 4. The uses of familial searching in Europe: at the crossroads between expanding suspicion and historical reparation 5. Expanding genetic informativity through emerging technologies: the cases of forensic DNA phenotyping and next generation sequencing 6. Non-governmental organizations and the critique of genetic surveillance Concluding remarks

This book presents a new empirical and conceptual framework for understanding the intersections between genetic technologies, technological systems for surveillance, and contemporary approaches to criminality.