Filipe Santos


Biography

Filipe Santos has a Ph.D. in Sociology and a member of the Research Line Risk(s), Ecologies, Health. His research interests are focused on the intersections between criminal justice and forensic science, privileging theoretical approaches from the science, technology and society studies. Filipe's latest publications include the book "Do Meia Culpa a Madeleine McCann. Casos mediáticos e genética forense em Portugal" (2021) and "Crime in a prison cell: Epistemic cultures and institutional neutrality in an inquisitorial setting" (2023). His current research project (CLINIC) focuses on the execution of security measures by mentally disordered offenders in Portugal.


Latest Publications

Article in Scientific journal

Santos, Filipe; Costa, Susana (2023), "Crime in a prison cell: Epistemic cultures and institutional neutrality in an inquisitorial setting", Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, onlinefirst

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Book Chapter

Santos, Filipe (2023), The 'key' to the crime: Criminal cases and the projection of expectations about forensic DNA technologies in the Portuguese press, in Lara Bergers, Pauline Dirven, Willemijn Ruberg and Sara Serrano Martínez (org.), Forensic cultures in modern Europe. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 261-281

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Book Chapter

Santos, Filipe (2021), Estandardização e cooperação no sistema Prüm como objetos de fronteira, in Helena Machado (org.), Crime e tecnologia: Desafios culturais e políticos para a Europa. Porto: Afrontamento, 125-149