Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting

by Simon A. Cole, Michael Lynch, Ruth McNally, et al.

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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,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226498069

ISBN13:9780226498065

Release Date:January 2009

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:416 Pages

Weight:1.55 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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