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Genetic Justice : DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties /
National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders. However, since the mid-1990s, forensic DNA databanks have expanded in some states and nations to include all people who have been arrested, regardless of whether they've been ch...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders. However, since the mid-1990s, forensic DNA databanks have expanded in some states and nations to include all people who have been arrested, regardless of whether they've been charged or convicted of a crime. The public is largely unaware of these changes and the advances in biotechnology and forensic DNA science that have made them possible, but we are beginning to realize that the unfettered collection of DNA profiles from innocent citizens has compromised our basic fr. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 406 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231517805 0231517807 0231145209 9780231145206 |