Communicating Forensic Genetics: ‘Enthusiastic’ Publics and the Management of Expectations

Abstract

This work received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 648608), within the project ‘EXCHANGE – Forensic geneticists and the transnational exchange of DNA data in the EU: Engaging science with social control, citizenship and democracy’, led by Helena Machado and currently hosted at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS), Institute for Social Sciences of the University of Minho, Portugal.