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    Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting
    Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting
    Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting
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    Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting

    By Michael Lynch, Simon A. Cole, Ruth McNally and Kathleen Jordan

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateFeb 15, 2010
    ISBN9780226498089
    Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting

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