Truth machine : the contentious history of DNA fingerprinting /

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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lynch, Michael, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Subjects:
DNA fingerprinting > History.
DNA Fingerprinting > history
Empreintes génétiques > Histoire.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
DNA fingerprinting
Genetischer Fingerabdruck
Criminalistiek.
DNA-onderzoek.
Bewijs (recht)
DNA-profiler > historia.
Verenigde Staten.
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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?

Similar Items