Registering and Profiling Race and Ethnicity in Science and Law Enforcement: a Constitutional Law Approach

Pap, András László and Kovács Szitkay, Eszter (2022) Registering and Profiling Race and Ethnicity in Science and Law Enforcement: a Constitutional Law Approach. In: Law and Forensic Science: A Global Challenge - Acts of the 2nd International Conference. Diritto Piú, Rome, p. 290.

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Abstract

The paper provides an assessment of the triadic relationship between law, law enforcement practices and science. It begins by providing an overview of the challenges in the legal institutionalization and operationalization of ethnic/racial/national group affiliation, and in particular in law enforcement. Subsequently, the paper 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.

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