Truth Machine The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting

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Synopsis

DNA profiling—commonly known as DNA fingerprinting—is often heralded as unassailable criminal evidence, a veritable “truth machine” that can overturn convictions based on eyewitness testimony, confessions, and other forms of forensic evidence. But DNA evidence is far from infallible. Truth Machine traces the controversial history of DNA fingerprinting by looking at court cases in the United States and United Kingdom beginning in the mid-1980s, when the practice was invented, and continuing until the present. Ultimately, Truth Machine presents compelling evidence of the obstacles and opportunities at the intersection of science, technology, sociology, and law.

Book details

Author:
Michael Lynch, Simon A. Cole, Ruth McNally, Kathleen Jordan
ISBN:
9780226498089
Related ISBNs:
9780226498065, 9780226498072
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Pages:
416
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2021-01-08
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2008
Copyright by:
The University of Chicago Press 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Nonfiction, Science