Technolegal policies and practices

This epilogue reflects on the overall lessons of the conjunction of chapters gathered in the collection Technolegal Worlds and highlights directions for further conceptual work. It begins by examining the on-going processes of truth making across the various technolegal settings of forensic genetics. These continue to raise novel questions about citizenship. The epilogue then considers the remarkable international spread of forensic DNA profiling and the important regional and national variations in the specifics its adoption. It concludes by arguing that changes that straddle the technological and the legal are afoot that challenge some of the underlying assumptions of the field of social studies of forensic genetics.