Governing expectations of forensic innovations in society: the case of FDP in Germany

This article is about the governance of expectations forensic DNA phenotyping (FDP) innovations in Germany used for prediction human externally visible traits such as eye, hair, and skin color, well biological age biogeographic ancestry. In 2019, FDP technologies were regulated under label “extended analysis”. We focus on members genetics’ community Germany, anticipation response to those regulators who advocated technologies. Confronted with regulators’ omnipotent optimistic promise that they will enhance public security, geneticists responded attempts adjust expectations, specifying limits risks, along a particular logic sorting matters concern. reflect how geneticists’ govern through forms distributed anticipatory governance, delimiting their obligations, distributing accountability across criminal justice system.