Forensic Apophenia: Sensing the Bioinformation Archive

This article draws on intersecting debates archives, infrastructures, and knowledge in anthropology to analyze a “bioinformational turn” forensic science. Focusing transformations science provision England Wales apparent the history of archive, frames frictions between ways making across scientific cultures, law enforcement, legal system that aims create facts certainty, against scientists’ concern with process context disparate realms practice. Following descriptions changing conditions under which is currently practiced erosion as public service, we argue practitioners interrogate positivist projections by thinking complexity they follow evidence through multiple registers, datasets.