Centre for Crime and Policing, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK.
Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK.
Genes (Basel). 2022 Aug 16;13(8):1453. doi: 10.3390/genes13081453.
Forensic genetics comes under critical scrutiny when developments challenge previously accepted legal, ethical, social, and other boundaries. Forensic geneticists continue to build a knowledge culture within a community of practice that acknowledges ethical standards of conduct in both research and the societal application of forensic genetics. As the community further cements and extends its societal role, and in that process often pushing at ethical and legal boundaries, it requires a strong, resilient, and responsive ethos that, in setting clear parameters for conduct, fosters the field's sense of purpose. While supra-national declarations and human rights protections, coupled with local regulations, provide some parameters for practice, and discipline-specific guidance has refined an agenda for forensic genetics research and application, this maturing field needs to now define its core principles. This contribution proposes the values of integrity, trustworthiness, and effectiveness as a foundational triptych for a bespoke forensic genetics ethos to ensure the augmentation of developments that range from a purely science-oriented to a wider societally relevant knowledge culture.
当发展挑战先前被接受的法律、伦理、社会和其他界限时，法证遗传学受到严格审查。法证遗传学家继续在一个实践社区中建立知识文化，承认研究和法证遗传学在社会应用中的行为伦理标准。随着社区进一步巩固和扩大其社会角色，并且在这个过程中经常挑战伦理和法律界限，它需要一种强大、有弹性和响应性的精神，在为行为设定明确参数的同时，培养该领域的使命感。虽然超国家宣言和人权保护，加上地方法规，为实践提供了一些参数，并且特定学科的指导已经为法证遗传学研究和应用制定了议程，但这个成熟的领域现在需要定义其核心原则。本贡献提出诚信、值得信赖和有效性的价值观，作为定制法证遗传学精神的基础三联体，以确保从纯粹以科学为导向到更广泛的与社会相关的知识文化的发展得到增强。
