Rafaela Granja
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 72892 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rafaela Granja |
| NOMBRES | Rafaela |
| APELLIDO | Granja |
| FIRMA | GRANJA R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Minho |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4430-9061 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
(In)visible carcerality
Electronic monitoring has emerged as a rapidly expanding and significant form of carceral control. In this article, we consider electronic monitoring as integrated into the carceral continuum, not only as a spatially dispersed mechanism but also as operating through particular dynamics of visibility and invisibility. Considering the cases of Portugal and Brazil, we analyse how electronic monitoring (re)shapes and (re)articulates carceral dynamics…
Dissolving Boundaries, Fostering Dependencies. the new Forensic Genetics Assemblage
New and emerging forensic genetics technologies offer significant insight into personal information, changing the way that policing and criminal justice uses of such technologies are being considered and legitimized. In this article, based on data from Central and Western European countries and the United States of America, we analyze how the compounding, interdependent effects of four such technologies—massive parallel sequencing, forensic epige…
A pandemia de Covid-19 no sistema prisional português
A pandemia de Covid-19 apresentou desafios sem precedentes para os sistemas penitenciários de todo o mundo. Neste artigo, com base em 43 entrevistas realizadas com pessoas recluídas com 65 anos ou mais, guardas prisionais, representantes de ONG e assistentes religiosos e espirituais que atuam no contexto prisional, exploramos as implicações da pandemia de Covid-19 no sistema prisional português. Os dados mostram os impactos das restrições imposta…
Big Data applied to criminal investigations
Big Data is seen as an increasingly important tool to support policing activities, define security governance policies and assist criminal investigations. Although significant literature has explored the predictive capabilities of Big Data, there has been less focus on the uses of Big Data in criminal investigations, focused on detection and apprehension that occur after a crime has been committed. This article aims to fill this gap through the l…
Crime, Justice and Media
1. Introduction Understanding the ever-complex relationship between the media, society and crime requires exploring several fluid discussions that connect these domains. How does the media affect the way people think about social issues such as criminality and justice? What is the impact of media coverage of crime on how society responds to it? Do the media have a central role in forming public opinion, does public opinion influence what media re…
(Dis)trusted outsiders
This article aims to contribute to the growing body of literature that critically reflects on the practical, ethical and relational challenges raised by conducting research in prison. Basing our work on three different studies developed in Portuguese prison settings, we develop an intersectional understanding of building (dis)trust in prison settings by reflecting upon researchers’ characteristics and relational dynamics with people in the field,…
The (De)materialization of Criminal Bodies in Forensic DNA Phenotyping
Forensic DNA phenotyping is a genetic technology that might be used in criminal investigations. Based on DNA samples of the human body found at crime scenes, it allows to infer externally visible characteristics (such as eye, hair and skin colour) and continental-based biogeographical ancestry. By indicating the probable visible appearance of a criminal suspect, forensic DNA phenotyping allows to narrow down the focus of a criminal investigation.…
As Implicações Invisibilizadas do Tecno-Otimismo da Vigilância Eletrónica em Portugal
Nos últimos anos, a supervisão de ofensores nas comunidades tem-se vindo a constituir como uma nova faceta da paisagem penal na maioria dos países ocidentais, assistindo-se ao seu crescimento em escala, alcance e intensidade. Em Portugal, a par das penas e medidas na comunidade e das penas de prisão, destaca-se a vigilância eletrónica como forma de monitorizar ofensores. Este instrumento penal é associado a elevadas expectativas criadas por discu…
DNA Transnational Data Journeys and the Construction of Categories of Suspicion
Background Systems for large-scale data exchanges are playing a pivotal role in the governance, surveillance, and social control of criminality in different parts of the world. Analysis This article explores the case study of the Prüm system, which is a technological system for the exchange of DNA data among several European Union (EU) countries. Making use of the concept of data journeys, it addresses how the transnational exchange of DNA data i…
Forensic DNA phenotyping and its politics of legitimation and contestation
Forensic DNA Phenotyping (FDP) is a set of techniques that aim to infer externally visible characteristics in humans - such as eye, hair and skin color - and biogeographical ancestry of an unknown person, based on biological material. FDP has been applied in various jurisdictions in a limited number of high-profile cases to provide intelligence for criminal investigations. There are on-going controversies about the reliability and validity of FDP…
Constructing Suspicion Through Forensic DNA Databases in the EU. The Views of the Prüm Professionals
This article explores the fluid and flexible forms of constructing suspicion, which take shape in transnational governance of crime through forensic DNA databases. The empirical examples are the views of professionals engaged with the so-called Prüm system. This technological identification system was developed to enable DNA data exchange across EU Member States in the context of police and judicial cooperation to control cross-border crime and t…
Laços Familiares e Afetivo-Sexuais de Mulheres nas Prisões Brasileiras e Portuguesas
O presente artigo propõe analisar os desafios que as mulheres aprisionadas enfrentam para manutenção do contato familiar, afetivo e sexual. Esta reflexão baseia-se numa análise comparativa entre Brasil e Portugal. Em ambos os países, há primazia da vigilância, que se traduz em reduzidas possibilidades de contatos, na carência de privacidade durante as visitas e nas limitações ou proibições aos contatos telefónicos. Não obstante as diferenças entr…
Long-range familial searches in recreational DNA databases
Long-range familial searches in recreational DNA databases have been the subject of intense interest since the high-profile case of the Golden State Killer. This technique has raised considerable media attention and has sparked immediate criticism from forensic geneticists and other professionals, regulators, policy advisors, and ethicists. However, the literature on this topic does not capture the complexities resulting from the commodification …
Police epistemic culture and boundary work with judicial authorities and forensic scientists
The exchange of forensic DNA data is seen as an increasingly important tool in criminal investigations into organised crime, control strategies and counter-terrorism measures. On the basis of a set of interviews with police professionals involved in the transnational exchange of DNA data between EU countries, this paper examines how forensic DNA evidence is given meaning within the various different ways of constructing a police epistemic culture…
Ethical Controversies of Familial Searching
Familial searching is a technology that detects genetic relatedness. The term is generally used to refer to searches conducted in criminal DNA databases to identify criminal suspects through their connection with relatives. Beyond criminal investigation purposes, familial searching might also be used for the identification of unknown bodies and missing persons. The United Kingdom and Poland are cases that illustrate the variability of familial se…
Sharing Imprisonment
This chapter focuses on prisoners and relatives’ narratives to analyse how they negotiate relationships in the shadow of prison and to explore their views on the relational, familial, social, and economic implications of imprisonment. The analysis is based in the Portuguese context, as it is a country that has been witnessing a substantial increase in the prison population. Among the information publicly available about the socio-demographic char…
Prisons, Punishment, and the Family
This book draws together chapters from eight countries to explore the severe effects that prison has on the families of prisoners. There are millions of people affected by the imprisonment of a family member each year and they suffer a wide range of difficulties. This has important implications for society as prisoners’ families experience social exclusion and inequality, despite being innocent citizens. This is important for how we think about t…
Ethics in Transnational Forensic DNA Data Exchange in the EU
Under EU Law, Member States are compelled to engage in reciprocal automated forensic DNA profile exchange for stepping up on cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism and cross-border crime. The ethical implications of this transnational DNA data exchange are paramount. Exploring what the concept of ethics means to forensic practitioners actively involved in transnational DNA data exchange allows discussing how ethics can be a…
Mothering From Prison and Ideologies of Intensive Parenting
Intensive parenting' ideologies have been increasingly disseminated in popular culture, expert discourses, and social policy. These have impacted particularly mothers owing to their actual or presumed central role in child rearing. One of the main features of these ideologies is an increasing apportioning of rights and responsibilities to families without taking into account the resources needed to sustain the work of caring according to dominant…
Mothering From Prison and Ideologies of Intensive Parenting
Intensive parenting' ideologies have been increasingly disseminated in popular culture, expert discourses, and social policy. These have impacted particularly mothers owing to their actual or presumed central role in child rearing. One of the main features of these ideologies is an increasing apportioning of rights and responsibilities to families without taking into account the resources needed to sustain the work of caring according to dominant…
Forensic DNA phenotyping and its politics of legitimation and contestation
Forensic DNA Phenotyping (FDP) is a set of techniques that aim to infer externally visible characteristics in humans - such as eye, hair and skin color - and biogeographical ancestry of an unknown person, based on biological material. FDP has been applied in various jurisdictions in a limited number of high-profile cases to provide intelligence for criminal investigations. There are on-going controversies about the reliability and validity of FDP…
Constructing Suspicion Through Forensic DNA Databases in the EU. The Views of the Prüm Professionals
This article explores the fluid and flexible forms of constructing suspicion, which take shape in transnational governance of crime through forensic DNA databases. The empirical examples are the views of professionals engaged with the so-called Prüm system. This technological identification system was developed to enable DNA data exchange across EU Member States in the context of police and judicial cooperation to control cross-border crime and t…
Big Data applied to criminal investigations
Big Data is seen as an increasingly important tool to support policing activities, define security governance policies and assist criminal investigations. Although significant literature has explored the predictive capabilities of Big Data, there has been less focus on the uses of Big Data in criminal investigations, focused on detection and apprehension that occur after a crime has been committed. This article aims to fill this gap through the l…
Long-range familial searches in recreational DNA databases
Long-range familial searches in recreational DNA databases have been the subject of intense interest since the high-profile case of the Golden State Killer. This technique has raised considerable media attention and has sparked immediate criticism from forensic geneticists and other professionals, regulators, policy advisors, and ethicists. However, the literature on this topic does not capture the complexities resulting from the commodification …
Ethics in Transnational Forensic DNA Data Exchange in the EU
Under EU Law, Member States are compelled to engage in reciprocal automated forensic DNA profile exchange for stepping up on cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism and cross-border crime. The ethical implications of this transnational DNA data exchange are paramount. Exploring what the concept of ethics means to forensic practitioners actively involved in transnational DNA data exchange allows discussing how ethics can be a…
The (De)materialization of Criminal Bodies in Forensic DNA Phenotyping
Forensic DNA phenotyping is a genetic technology that might be used in criminal investigations. Based on DNA samples of the human body found at crime scenes, it allows to infer externally visible characteristics (such as eye, hair and skin colour) and continental-based biogeographical ancestry. By indicating the probable visible appearance of a criminal suspect, forensic DNA phenotyping allows to narrow down the focus of a criminal investigation.…
Mothering From Prison and Ideologies of Intensive Parenting
Intensive parenting' ideologies have been increasingly disseminated in popular culture, expert discourses, and social policy. These have impacted particularly mothers owing to their actual or presumed central role in child rearing. One of the main features of these ideologies is an increasing apportioning of rights and responsibilities to families without taking into account the resources needed to sustain the work of caring according to dominant…
Sharing Imprisonment
This chapter focuses on prisoners and relatives’ narratives to analyse how they negotiate relationships in the shadow of prison and to explore their views on the relational, familial, social, and economic implications of imprisonment. The analysis is based in the Portuguese context, as it is a country that has been witnessing a substantial increase in the prison population. Among the information publicly available about the socio-demographic char…
Prisons, Punishment, and the Family
This book draws together chapters from eight countries to explore the severe effects that prison has on the families of prisoners. There are millions of people affected by the imprisonment of a family member each year and they suffer a wide range of difficulties. This has important implications for society as prisoners’ families experience social exclusion and inequality, despite being innocent citizens. This is important for how we think about t…
Ethics in Transnational Forensic DNA Data Exchange in the EU
Under EU Law, Member States are compelled to engage in reciprocal automated forensic DNA profile exchange for stepping up on cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism and cross-border crime. The ethical implications of this transnational DNA data exchange are paramount. Exploring what the concept of ethics means to forensic practitioners actively involved in transnational DNA data exchange allows discussing how ethics can be a…
Police epistemic culture and boundary work with judicial authorities and forensic scientists
The exchange of forensic DNA data is seen as an increasingly important tool in criminal investigations into organised crime, control strategies and counter-terrorism measures. On the basis of a set of interviews with police professionals involved in the transnational exchange of DNA data between EU countries, this paper examines how forensic DNA evidence is given meaning within the various different ways of constructing a police epistemic culture…
Ethical Controversies of Familial Searching
Familial searching is a technology that detects genetic relatedness. The term is generally used to refer to searches conducted in criminal DNA databases to identify criminal suspects through their connection with relatives. Beyond criminal investigation purposes, familial searching might also be used for the identification of unknown bodies and missing persons. The United Kingdom and Poland are cases that illustrate the variability of familial se…
DNA Transnational Data Journeys and the Construction of Categories of Suspicion
Background Systems for large-scale data exchanges are playing a pivotal role in the governance, surveillance, and social control of criminality in different parts of the world. Analysis This article explores the case study of the Prüm system, which is a technological system for the exchange of DNA data among several European Union (EU) countries. Making use of the concept of data journeys, it addresses how the transnational exchange of DNA data i…
Forensic DNA phenotyping and its politics of legitimation and contestation
Forensic DNA Phenotyping (FDP) is a set of techniques that aim to infer externally visible characteristics in humans - such as eye, hair and skin color - and biogeographical ancestry of an unknown person, based on biological material. FDP has been applied in various jurisdictions in a limited number of high-profile cases to provide intelligence for criminal investigations. There are on-going controversies about the reliability and validity of FDP…
Constructing Suspicion Through Forensic DNA Databases in the EU. The Views of the Prüm Professionals
This article explores the fluid and flexible forms of constructing suspicion, which take shape in transnational governance of crime through forensic DNA databases. The empirical examples are the views of professionals engaged with the so-called Prüm system. This technological identification system was developed to enable DNA data exchange across EU Member States in the context of police and judicial cooperation to control cross-border crime and t…
Laços Familiares e Afetivo-Sexuais de Mulheres nas Prisões Brasileiras e Portuguesas
O presente artigo propõe analisar os desafios que as mulheres aprisionadas enfrentam para manutenção do contato familiar, afetivo e sexual. Esta reflexão baseia-se numa análise comparativa entre Brasil e Portugal. Em ambos os países, há primazia da vigilância, que se traduz em reduzidas possibilidades de contatos, na carência de privacidade durante as visitas e nas limitações ou proibições aos contatos telefónicos. Não obstante as diferenças entr…
Long-range familial searches in recreational DNA databases
Long-range familial searches in recreational DNA databases have been the subject of intense interest since the high-profile case of the Golden State Killer. This technique has raised considerable media attention and has sparked immediate criticism from forensic geneticists and other professionals, regulators, policy advisors, and ethicists. However, the literature on this topic does not capture the complexities resulting from the commodification …
(Dis)trusted outsiders
This article aims to contribute to the growing body of literature that critically reflects on the practical, ethical and relational challenges raised by conducting research in prison. Basing our work on three different studies developed in Portuguese prison settings, we develop an intersectional understanding of building (dis)trust in prison settings by reflecting upon researchers’ characteristics and relational dynamics with people in the field,…
The (De)materialization of Criminal Bodies in Forensic DNA Phenotyping
Forensic DNA phenotyping is a genetic technology that might be used in criminal investigations. Based on DNA samples of the human body found at crime scenes, it allows to infer externally visible characteristics (such as eye, hair and skin colour) and continental-based biogeographical ancestry. By indicating the probable visible appearance of a criminal suspect, forensic DNA phenotyping allows to narrow down the focus of a criminal investigation.…
As Implicações Invisibilizadas do Tecno-Otimismo da Vigilância Eletrónica em Portugal
Nos últimos anos, a supervisão de ofensores nas comunidades tem-se vindo a constituir como uma nova faceta da paisagem penal na maioria dos países ocidentais, assistindo-se ao seu crescimento em escala, alcance e intensidade. Em Portugal, a par das penas e medidas na comunidade e das penas de prisão, destaca-se a vigilância eletrónica como forma de monitorizar ofensores. Este instrumento penal é associado a elevadas expectativas criadas por discu…
Big Data applied to criminal investigations
Big Data is seen as an increasingly important tool to support policing activities, define security governance policies and assist criminal investigations. Although significant literature has explored the predictive capabilities of Big Data, there has been less focus on the uses of Big Data in criminal investigations, focused on detection and apprehension that occur after a crime has been committed. This article aims to fill this gap through the l…
Crime, Justice and Media
1. Introduction Understanding the ever-complex relationship between the media, society and crime requires exploring several fluid discussions that connect these domains. How does the media affect the way people think about social issues such as criminality and justice? What is the impact of media coverage of crime on how society responds to it? Do the media have a central role in forming public opinion, does public opinion influence what media re…
A pandemia de Covid-19 no sistema prisional português
A pandemia de Covid-19 apresentou desafios sem precedentes para os sistemas penitenciários de todo o mundo. Neste artigo, com base em 43 entrevistas realizadas com pessoas recluídas com 65 anos ou mais, guardas prisionais, representantes de ONG e assistentes religiosos e espirituais que atuam no contexto prisional, exploramos as implicações da pandemia de Covid-19 no sistema prisional português. Os dados mostram os impactos das restrições imposta…
(In)visible carcerality
Electronic monitoring has emerged as a rapidly expanding and significant form of carceral control. In this article, we consider electronic monitoring as integrated into the carceral continuum, not only as a spatially dispersed mechanism but also as operating through particular dynamics of visibility and invisibility. Considering the cases of Portugal and Brazil, we analyse how electronic monitoring (re)shapes and (re)articulates carceral dynamics…
Dissolving Boundaries, Fostering Dependencies. the new Forensic Genetics Assemblage
New and emerging forensic genetics technologies offer significant insight into personal information, changing the way that policing and criminal justice uses of such technologies are being considered and legitimized. In this article, based on data from Central and Western European countries and the United States of America, we analyze how the compounding, interdependent effects of four such technologies—massive parallel sequencing, forensic epige…
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