Truth Machine
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A01=Kathleen Jordan
A01=Michael E. Lynch
A01=Ruth McNally
A01=Simon A. Cole
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Author_Kathleen Jordan
Author_Michael E. Lynch
Author_Ruth McNally
Author_Simon A. Cole
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chain of custody
confessions
court cases
credibility
criminal justice
database
dna
england
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evidence
eyewitness testimony
fingerprinting
forensic
history
law
legal system
molecular biology
nonfiction
probability
profiling
proof
prosecution
r v deen
science
sociology
technology
united states
wrongful conviction
Product details
- ISBN 9780226498072
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2011
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Michael Lynch is professor in the science and technology studies department at Cornell University. Simon A. Cole is the author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification. Ruth McNally is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics at Lancaster University. Kathleen Jordan has a PhD in sociology from Boston University and is currently a student at the Rhode Island School of Design.
