Christopher James Lawle
Biographic Data
| ID | 1250280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher James Lawle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher James |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawle |
| SIGNATURE | LAWLE C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2980-9095 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
How water features: Negotiating and reassembling the sociomaterial politics of central Californian groundwater
This article explores responses to the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) to challenge post-political and governmentality perspectives on environmental management. I chart how SGMA reconfigured sociomaterial orderings in the Central Valley region, enacting a liminal moment for groundwater culture, between a historically entrenched libertarianism and an emergent communitarianism. Local organizations functioned as boundary org…
The evolution, devolution and distribution of UK Biometric Imaginaries
Exploring the human factor in cyber-enabled and cyber-dependent crime victimisation: A lifestyle routine activities approach
Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore human factors as the possible facilitator of cyber-dependent (hacking and malware infection) and cyber-enabled (phishing) crimes victimisation and to test the applicability of lifestyle routine activities theory (LRAT) to cybercrime victimisation. Design/methodology/approach A mixed methods research paradigm was applied to address the research questions and aims. The data set of Crime Survey of Eng…
Assembling airspace: The Single European Sky and contested transnationalities of European air traffic management
The Single European Sky (SES) encompasses a series of legislative and regulatory measures reflecting a vision for reforming Air Traffic Management (ATM) in Europe to ultimately transcend national control of airspace. This article considers SES via the conceptual framing of the sociotechnical imaginary, and finds that the embedded, distributed and interpretive character of European ATM invites further conceptualization around how actors may need t…
Exploring the socio-material boundaries of climate change resilience
This paper focuses on the status of resilience for conceptualizing interactions on climate change response between actors possessing differing social standpoints and worldviews. Relations between discursive mobilizations and socio-material manifestations of resilience are considered. The paper reviews and builds upon research which has addressed environmental and scientific issues using the concept of the boundary object and related ideas. Examin…
Bounding the vision of a Single E uropean Sky
This commentary focuses on the challenges facing the implementation of the Single E uropean Sky ( SES ) initiative. Intended to reduce the inefficiencies of air travel across the region, SES represents an attempt to transcend national systems of airspace management, replacing them with an organisationally and technologically integrated pan‐continental system. So far, however, outcomes have not fully matched the original vision of SES . In this co…
Introduction: Material Worlds: Intersections of Law, Science, Technology, and Society
‘Material’ : n. The substance or substances out of which a thing is or can be made. adj. Being both relevant and consequential; crucial; ‘testimony material to the inquiry’
The low template DNA profiling controversy: Biolegality and boundary work among forensic scientists
This article describes disputes that have arisen around forms of forensic DNA profiling technologies known as 'low-template DNA' methods. These ultra-sensitive techniques, used to analyse trace quantities of DNA, have previously been used in many high-profile criminal cases. However, certain cases have stimulated renewed debate within forensic scientific communities concerning the reliability and validity of low-template DNA. The low-template DNA…
Policing Markets: The Contested Shaping of Neo-Liberal Forensic Science
Journal Article Policing Markets: The Contested Shaping of Neo-Liberal Forensic Science Get access Christopher James Lawless Christopher James Lawless * *Dr, Christopher James Lawless, Institute for Study of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI), Old Surgeons Hall, High School Yards, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH1 1LZ, UK; [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Briti…
Managing Epistemic Risk in Forensic Science: Sociological Aspects and Issues
The last decades have seen a notable increase in the use of scientific evidence in criminal investigation, a development which has captured the imagination of the media, publics and policymakers alike. Yet behind the authoritative image of forensic science lies a highly fluid and indeterminate landscape which invites sociological interest. In what follows, I aim to provide a sense of why it holds appeal to sociology, and to also outline a more up…
Helping with inquiries or helping with profits? The trials and tribulations of a technology of forensic reasoning
The commercialization of forensic scientific provision in the UK over the last two decades has had a major role in shaping a changing epistemic identity for forensic scientists working within this jurisdiction. Efforts to match the presumed epistemological standards of the 'pure' sciences have been brought together with concerns about value for money in a new approach to the interpretation of evidence, an activity that lies at the heart of crimin…
Helping with inquiries or helping with profits? The trials and tribulations of a technology of forensic reasoning
The commercialization of forensic scientific provision in the UK over the last two decades has had a major role in shaping a changing epistemic identity for forensic scientists working within this jurisdiction. Efforts to match the presumed epistemological standards of the 'pure' sciences have been brought together with concerns about value for money in a new approach to the interpretation of evidence, an activity that lies at the heart of crimin…
The low template DNA profiling controversy: Biolegality and boundary work among forensic scientists
This article describes disputes that have arisen around forms of forensic DNA profiling technologies known as 'low-template DNA' methods. These ultra-sensitive techniques, used to analyse trace quantities of DNA, have previously been used in many high-profile criminal cases. However, certain cases have stimulated renewed debate within forensic scientific communities concerning the reliability and validity of low-template DNA. The low-template DNA…
Introduction: Material Worlds: Intersections of Law, Science, Technology, and Society
‘Material’ : n. The substance or substances out of which a thing is or can be made. adj. Being both relevant and consequential; crucial; ‘testimony material to the inquiry’
Exploring the human factor in cyber-enabled and cyber-dependent crime victimisation: A lifestyle routine activities approach
Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore human factors as the possible facilitator of cyber-dependent (hacking and malware infection) and cyber-enabled (phishing) crimes victimisation and to test the applicability of lifestyle routine activities theory (LRAT) to cybercrime victimisation. Design/methodology/approach A mixed methods research paradigm was applied to address the research questions and aims. The data set of Crime Survey of Eng…
Assembling airspace: The Single European Sky and contested transnationalities of European air traffic management
The Single European Sky (SES) encompasses a series of legislative and regulatory measures reflecting a vision for reforming Air Traffic Management (ATM) in Europe to ultimately transcend national control of airspace. This article considers SES via the conceptual framing of the sociotechnical imaginary, and finds that the embedded, distributed and interpretive character of European ATM invites further conceptualization around how actors may need t…
Policing Markets: The Contested Shaping of Neo-Liberal Forensic Science
Journal Article Policing Markets: The Contested Shaping of Neo-Liberal Forensic Science Get access Christopher James Lawless Christopher James Lawless * *Dr, Christopher James Lawless, Institute for Study of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI), Old Surgeons Hall, High School Yards, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH1 1LZ, UK; [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Briti…
Bounding the vision of a Single E uropean Sky
This commentary focuses on the challenges facing the implementation of the Single E uropean Sky ( SES ) initiative. Intended to reduce the inefficiencies of air travel across the region, SES represents an attempt to transcend national systems of airspace management, replacing them with an organisationally and technologically integrated pan‐continental system. So far, however, outcomes have not fully matched the original vision of SES . In this co…
Managing Epistemic Risk in Forensic Science: Sociological Aspects and Issues
The last decades have seen a notable increase in the use of scientific evidence in criminal investigation, a development which has captured the imagination of the media, publics and policymakers alike. Yet behind the authoritative image of forensic science lies a highly fluid and indeterminate landscape which invites sociological interest. In what follows, I aim to provide a sense of why it holds appeal to sociology, and to also outline a more up…
Helping with inquiries or helping with profits? The trials and tribulations of a technology of forensic reasoning
The commercialization of forensic scientific provision in the UK over the last two decades has had a major role in shaping a changing epistemic identity for forensic scientists working within this jurisdiction. Efforts to match the presumed epistemological standards of the 'pure' sciences have been brought together with concerns about value for money in a new approach to the interpretation of evidence, an activity that lies at the heart of crimin…
Policing Markets: The Contested Shaping of Neo-Liberal Forensic Science
Journal Article Policing Markets: The Contested Shaping of Neo-Liberal Forensic Science Get access Christopher James Lawless Christopher James Lawless * *Dr, Christopher James Lawless, Institute for Study of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI), Old Surgeons Hall, High School Yards, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH1 1LZ, UK; [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Briti…
Introduction: Material Worlds: Intersections of Law, Science, Technology, and Society
‘Material’ : n. The substance or substances out of which a thing is or can be made. adj. Being both relevant and consequential; crucial; ‘testimony material to the inquiry’
The low template DNA profiling controversy: Biolegality and boundary work among forensic scientists
This article describes disputes that have arisen around forms of forensic DNA profiling technologies known as 'low-template DNA' methods. These ultra-sensitive techniques, used to analyse trace quantities of DNA, have previously been used in many high-profile criminal cases. However, certain cases have stimulated renewed debate within forensic scientific communities concerning the reliability and validity of low-template DNA. The low-template DNA…
Bounding the vision of a Single E uropean Sky
This commentary focuses on the challenges facing the implementation of the Single E uropean Sky ( SES ) initiative. Intended to reduce the inefficiencies of air travel across the region, SES represents an attempt to transcend national systems of airspace management, replacing them with an organisationally and technologically integrated pan‐continental system. So far, however, outcomes have not fully matched the original vision of SES . In this co…
Exploring the socio-material boundaries of climate change resilience
This paper focuses on the status of resilience for conceptualizing interactions on climate change response between actors possessing differing social standpoints and worldviews. Relations between discursive mobilizations and socio-material manifestations of resilience are considered. The paper reviews and builds upon research which has addressed environmental and scientific issues using the concept of the boundary object and related ideas. Examin…
Exploring the human factor in cyber-enabled and cyber-dependent crime victimisation: A lifestyle routine activities approach
Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore human factors as the possible facilitator of cyber-dependent (hacking and malware infection) and cyber-enabled (phishing) crimes victimisation and to test the applicability of lifestyle routine activities theory (LRAT) to cybercrime victimisation. Design/methodology/approach A mixed methods research paradigm was applied to address the research questions and aims. The data set of Crime Survey of Eng…
Assembling airspace: The Single European Sky and contested transnationalities of European air traffic management
The Single European Sky (SES) encompasses a series of legislative and regulatory measures reflecting a vision for reforming Air Traffic Management (ATM) in Europe to ultimately transcend national control of airspace. This article considers SES via the conceptual framing of the sociotechnical imaginary, and finds that the embedded, distributed and interpretive character of European ATM invites further conceptualization around how actors may need t…
The evolution, devolution and distribution of UK Biometric Imaginaries
How water features: Negotiating and reassembling the sociomaterial politics of central Californian groundwater
This article explores responses to the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) to challenge post-political and governmentality perspectives on environmental management. I chart how SGMA reconfigured sociomaterial orderings in the Central Valley region, enacting a liminal moment for groundwater culture, between a historically entrenched libertarianism and an emergent communitarianism. Local organizations functioned as boundary org…
Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works)