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Crime science: from evidence recovery to DNA databasing
October 28, 2010, 14h30
Seminar Room (2nd Floor), CES-Coimbra
Program
NECTS Debates 2010: Knowledges in Dialogue
Crime science:
from evidence recovery to DNA profile database
October 28th, 2010
Centre for Social Studies of University of Coimbra, 14:30
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Opening |
Sílvia Portugal, representing CES Scientific Board President |
Moderator |
Ana Raquel Matos, CES Researcher Co-coordinator of NECTS Debates 2010 |
Position of guest speakers What are the possibilities and the limits of science and technology in the fight against crime? |
. Rui Santos, Chief-Inspector of the Criminal Police Homicide Brigade
. Carlos Farinha, Director of the Forensic Science Laboratory, Main Coordinator of Criminal Investigation
. Francisco Corte-Real, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine
. Helena Moniz, Professor at the School of Law of the University of Coimbra, Member of the Supervisory Board of DNA genetic profile database
. Helena Machado, NECTS associate researcher, leading the project “Forensic DNA databasing in Portugal - contemporary issues in ethics, practices and policy”
. Amilton Nicolas Bento, Portuguese citizen, immigrant in England, condemned for homicide and later exonerated by the English courts
. Tânia Laranjo, journalist from Correio da Manhã
. Francisco José Viegas, journalist and writer |
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Break |
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Debate |
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Closing |
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Organization: Science, Technology and Society Research Group (NECTS)
Coordination: Susana Costa, Pedro Araújo, Ana Raquel Matos
Series

NECTS Debates 2010: Knowledges in Dialogue