Truth Machine

The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Biological Sciences, Microbiology, Reference & Language, Law
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Author: Michael Lynch, Simon A. Cole, Ruth McNally, Kathleen Jordan ISBN: 9780226498089
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Publication: February 15, 2010
Imprint: University of Chicago Press Language: English
Author: Michael Lynch, Simon A. Cole, Ruth McNally, Kathleen Jordan
ISBN: 9780226498089
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication: February 15, 2010
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Language: English

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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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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