Bøger af Helena Machado

This open access book explores how biometric data is increasingly flowing across borders in order to limit, control and contain the mobility of selected people, namely criminalized populations.

This open access book uses a critical sociological perspective to explore contemporary ways of reformulating the governance of crime through genetics.

Drawing on a research sample of over 50 interviews carried out with prisoners in Portugal and Austria, this book shows how prisoners view crime scene traces, how they understand crime scene technologies, and what effect they attribute to the existence of large police databases on their own lives, careers, and futures.