Truth machine : the contentious history of DNA fingerprinting / Michael Lynch [and others].

(Publisher-supplied data) 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 i...

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Main Author: Lynch, Michael, 1948-
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Physical Description:xxii, 391 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a A Revolution in Forensic Science? -- DNA Profiling Techniques -- A Techno-Legal Controversy -- Molecular Biology and the Dispersion of Technique -- Chains of Custody and Administrative Objectivity -- The U.K. National DNA Database -- Deconstructing Probability in the Case R. v. Deen -- Science, Common Sense, and DNA Evidence -- Fixing Controversy, Performing Closure -- Postclosure -- Fingerprinting: An Inversion of Credibility -- Finality? 
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