Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting - Softcover

Lynch, Michael; Cole, Simon A.; McNally, Ruth; Jordan, Kathleen

 
9780226498072: Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226498077 ISBN 13: 9780226498072
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Lynch is professor in the science and technology studies department at Cornell University. Simon A. Cole is the author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification. Ruth McNally is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics at Lancaster University. Kathleen Jordan has a PhD in sociology from Boston University and is currently a student at the Rhode Island School of Design.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226498077
ISBN 13 
9780226498072
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
414
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