Truth machine : the contentious history of DNA fingerprinting / Michael Lynch [and others].
2008
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Truth machine : the contentious history of DNA fingerprinting / Michael Lynch [and others].
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Description
1 online resource (xxii, 391 pages) : illustrations
Formatted Contents Note
A revolution in forensic science?
Interlude A : DNA profiling techniques
A techno-legal controversy
Interlude B : Admissibility, controversy, and judicial metascience
Molecular biology and the dispersion of technique
Chains of custody and administrative objectivity
Interlude C : The U.K. National DNA Database
Deconstructing probability in the case R.V. Deen
Interlude D : Bayesians, frequentists, and the DNA database search controversy
Science, common sense, and DNA evidence
Fixing controversy, performing closure
Postclosure
Interlude E : Fingerprinting and probability
Fingerprinting: an inversion of credibility
Finality?
Interlude A : DNA profiling techniques
A techno-legal controversy
Interlude B : Admissibility, controversy, and judicial metascience
Molecular biology and the dispersion of technique
Chains of custody and administrative objectivity
Interlude C : The U.K. National DNA Database
Deconstructing probability in the case R.V. Deen
Interlude D : Bayesians, frequentists, and the DNA database search controversy
Science, common sense, and DNA evidence
Fixing controversy, performing closure
Postclosure
Interlude E : Fingerprinting and probability
Fingerprinting: an inversion of credibility
Finality?
Summary
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. It is subject to the same possibilities for error-in sample collection, forensic analysis, and clerical record keeping-as any other aspect of criminal justice practice. 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. Using interviews, observations of courtroom trials and laboratory processes, and documentary reconstruction, the authors provide a nuanced, theoretically sophisticated, and original ethnographic account of DNA fingerprinting and its evolution. Ultimately, Truth Machine presents compelling evidence of the obstacles and opportunities at the intersection of science, technology, sociology, and law.--From publisher information.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-378) and index.
Source of Description
Print version record.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Lynch, Michael, 1948- Truth machine. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008
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Language
English
ISBN
9780226498089 (electronic book)
0226498085 (electronic book)
9780226498065 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0226498069 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0226498085 (electronic book)
9780226498065 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0226498069 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
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