Eszter Kovács Szitkay
Eszter Kovács Szitkay is a PhD student at Ludovika University of Public Service, Doctoral School of Law Enforcement (Hungary, Budapest) and a junior research fellow at (formerly Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies (Hungary, Budapest). Her research interest includes access to justice, law enforcement, and the conceptualization of race and ethnicity.
Latest publication:
-- Kovács Szitkay, E., & Pap, A. (2022). Populist Pressures, Policing and the Pandemic. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin, (SCE 5), 279-288.
-- Kovács Szitkay, E. (2021). Egy lépéssel közelebb az igazságszolgáltatáshoz való teljesebb hozzáféréshez [One step closer to a fuller access to justice]. In: Harmati, B.; Kovács Szitkay, E.; Pap, A. L.; Papp, B. (eds.): Honestas, Humanitas, Humilitas. Budapest, Magyarország : L'Harmattan Kiadó, pp. 115-125.
Sessions
The authors, working a project mapping how law conceptualizes and operationalizes race, ethnicity and nationality, provide an assessment of the triadic relationship between law, law enforcement practices and science. The paper begins by providing an overview of the obstacles, challenges and controversies in the legal institutionalization and operationalization of ethnic/racial/national group affiliation. Subsequently, the paper turns to the assessment of how “objective” criteria, data and constructions provided by science and biotechnology translate into the legal discourse and more specifically law enforcement practice. The focus here will be on race-focused forensic datasets and how ever so digital law enforcement registries can operationalize ethno-racial data for profiling and big data analysis. The paper will use the case study and example of the legal framework and practice in Hungary.