Race, Ethnicity, Biotechnology and the Law: Potentiality and Challenges for Law Enforcement in the Digital Age

Kovács Szitkay, Eszter and Pap, András László (2022) Race, Ethnicity, Biotechnology and the Law: Potentiality and Challenges for Law Enforcement in the Digital Age. EUROPEAN LAW ENFORCEMENT RESEARCH BULLETIN, 22 (6). pp. 23-31. ISSN 2599-5855

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Abstract

The authors, working on a project mapping how law conceptualizes and operationalizes race, ethnicity and nationality, provide an assessment of the triadic relationship between law, law enforcement practices and science. The article begins by providing an overview of the obstacles, challenges and controversies in the legal institutionalization and operationalization of ethnic/racial/national group affiliation. Subsequently, the article turns to the assessment of how “objective” criteria, data and constructions provided by science and biotechnology translate into the legal discourse and more specifically law enforcement practice in the digital age. The case study in the final section of the article provides an overview of how suspect description and the datafication is ethnicizied in Hungarian digital law enforcement registries.

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