Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting - Hardcover

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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226498069 ISBN 13: 9780226498065

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2008

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 Autorinnen und Autoren

Ruth McNally is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics at Lancaster University.

Michael Lynch is professor in the Science & Technology Studies Department at Cornell University and current president of the Society for Social Studies of Science.Simon 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 Ph.D. in sociology from Boston University and is currently a student at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226498069
• ISBN 13: 9780226498065
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 391
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press; https://press.uchicago.edu/index.html; ; 5801 S. Ellis Avenue; Chicago; IL; 60637; USA
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