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Collateral Consequences, Genetic Surveillance, And The New Biopolitics Of Race, Dorothy E. Roberts
Collateral Consequences, Genetic Surveillance, And The New Biopolitics Of Race, Dorothy E. Roberts
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This Article is part of a Howard Law Journal Symposium on “Collateral Consequences: Who Really Pays the Price for Criminal Justice?,” as well as my larger book project, Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (The New Press, 2011). It considers state and federal government expansion of genetic surveillance as a collateral consequence of a criminal record in the context of a new biopolitics of race in America. Part I reviews the expansion of DNA data banking by states and the federal government, extending the collateral impact of a criminal record—in the form …