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Biometrics, presents, futures: the imaginative politics of science–society orderings (2023)
Journal Article
Lawless, C. (2023). Biometrics, presents, futures: the imaginative politics of science–society orderings. Science and Public Policy, https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scad071

Biometric technology encompasses a proliferating array of data forms, applications, and stakeholders but has raised numerous social and ethical concerns. This article examines contending perceptions of biometrics by developing a three-way framework o... Read More about Biometrics, presents, futures: the imaginative politics of science–society orderings.

How water features: negotiating and reassembling the sociomaterial politics of central Californian groundwater (2023)
Journal Article
Lawless, C. (2023). How water features: negotiating and reassembling the sociomaterial politics of central Californian groundwater. Space and Polity, https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2023.2239153

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 Cen... Read More about How water features: negotiating and reassembling the sociomaterial politics of central Californian groundwater.

Emerging forensic genetic technologies: Contested anticipations of legitimation, caution and social situatedness (2022)
Book Chapter
Lawless, C. J. (2022). Emerging forensic genetic technologies: Contested anticipations of legitimation, caution and social situatedness. In V. Toom, M. Wienroth, & A. M’charek (Eds.), Law, Practice and Politics of Forensic DNA Profiling: Forensic Genetics and their Technolegal Worlds. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429322358

This chapter sees the partially realised nature of these technologies as an opportunity rather than a problem. It utilises this opportunity to explore interpretations of emerging forensic DNA technologies to illuminate how they render orderings of va... Read More about Emerging forensic genetic technologies: Contested anticipations of legitimation, caution and social situatedness.

The evolution, devolution and distribution of UK Biometric Imaginaries (2021)
Journal Article
Lawless, C. J. (2022). The evolution, devolution and distribution of UK Biometric Imaginaries. BioSocieties, 17(3), 506-526. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-021-00231-x

This article critically examines UK biometric policymaking by charting the bodies identified by the 2018 Home Office Biometric Strategy as playing key roles in the oversight of biometric data used in law enforcement and other related functions. The a... Read More about 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 (2020)
Journal Article
Akdemir, N., & Lawless, C. (2020). Exploring the Human Factor in Cyber-enabled and Cyber-dependent Crime Victimisation: A Lifestyle Routine Activities Approach. Internet Research, 30(6), 1665-1687. https://doi.org/10.1108/intr-10-2019-0400

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 activi... Read More about Exploring the Human Factor in Cyber-enabled and Cyber-dependent Crime Victimisation: A Lifestyle Routine Activities Approach.

Assembling airspace: The Single European Sky and contested transnationalities of European air traffic management (2020)
Journal Article
Lawless, C. (2020). Assembling airspace: The Single European Sky and contested transnationalities of European air traffic management. Social Studies of Science, 50(4), 680-704. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312720920704

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 th... Read More about Assembling airspace: The Single European Sky and contested transnationalities of European air traffic management.

Exploring the Socio-Material Boundaries of Climate Change Resilience (2018)
Journal Article
Lawless, C. J. (2018). Exploring the Socio-Material Boundaries of Climate Change Resilience. Environmental Sociology, 4(4), 434-444. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2018.1449341

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 manifestat... Read More about Exploring the Socio-Material Boundaries of Climate Change Resilience.

Forensic Science: A sociological introduction (2016)
Book
Lawless, C. (in press). Forensic Science: A sociological introduction. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315760551

Livelihood resilience in the face of climate change (2015)
Journal Article
Tanner, T., Lewis, D., Wrathall, D., Bronen, R., Cradock-Henry, N., Huq, S., …Thomalla, F. (2015). Livelihood resilience in the face of climate change. Nature Climate Change, 5(1), 23-26. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2431

The resilience concept requires greater attention to human livelihoods if it is to address the limits to adaptation strategies and the development needs of the planet's poorest and most vulnerable people. Although the concept of resilience is increas... Read More about Livelihood resilience in the face of climate change.

Bounding the vision of a Single European Sky (2013)
Journal Article
Lawless, C. (2013). Bounding the vision of a Single European Sky. The Geographical Journal, 180(1), 76-82. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12038

The low template DNA profiling controversy: Biolegality and boundary work among forensic scientists (2013)
Journal Article
Lawless, C. (2013). The low template DNA profiling controversy: Biolegality and boundary work among forensic scientists. Social Studies of Science, 43(2), 191-214. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312712465665

Material Worlds: Intersections of Law, Science, Technology and Society (2012)
Book
Lawless, C., & Faulkner, A. (Eds.). (2012). Material Worlds: Intersections of Law, Science, Technology and Society. Wiley

Exploring the Sociotechnical Co-production of Risk, Resilience and Transnationality (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Lawless, C. (2012, December). Exploring the Sociotechnical Co-production of Risk, Resilience and Transnationality. Paper presented at 3rd Flying University of the Transnational Humanities, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Bio-legality and Low Template DNA Profiling (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Lawless, C. (2012, December). Bio-legality and Low Template DNA Profiling. Paper presented at ESRC Genomics Networks Conference 2012: Genomics in Society: Facts, Fictions and Cultures, British Library, London, England

Introduction: Material Worlds: Intersections of Law, Science, Technology, and Society (2012)
Journal Article
Faulkner, A., Lange, B., & Lawless, C. (2012). Introduction: Material Worlds: Intersections of Law, Science, Technology, and Society. Journal of Law and Society, 39(1), 1-19

The Fallout from the Fallout: Risks, Hazards and Organizational Learning (2011)
Book Chapter
Lawless, C. (2011). The Fallout from the Fallout: Risks, Hazards and Organizational Learning. In A. Alemanno (Ed.), Governing Disasters - The Challenges of Emergency Regulation (233-245). Edward Elgar Publishing

Societal Barriers to Technological Knowledge Transfer (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Lawless, C. (2011, December). Societal Barriers to Technological Knowledge Transfer. Paper presented at Lloyds Register Educational Trust (LRET) Global Technical Leadership Forum on Fire Safety Engineering, Gullane, Scotland

Aviation Security: Interdisciplinary Challenges, Interdisciplinary Futures (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Lawless, C. (2011, December). Aviation Security: Interdisciplinary Challenges, Interdisciplinary Futures. Paper presented at Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Summit, Washington D.C., USA

The Fallout from the Fallout: Volcanic Ash, Risk and the Liminality of European Airspace (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Lawless, C. (2011, December). The Fallout from the Fallout: Volcanic Ash, Risk and the Liminality of European Airspace. Paper presented at European Group of Organisation Studies (EGOS) 27th Annual Symposium, Gothenburg, Sweden

Policing Markets: The Contested Shaping of Neoliberal Forensic Science (2011)
Journal Article
Lawless, C. (2011). Policing Markets: The Contested Shaping of Neoliberal Forensic Science. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society, 51(4), 671-689. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azr025