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

Truth Machine

The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting

416 pages, 33 halftones  6 x 9  © 2008

Cloth $37.50

ISBN: 9780226498065   Published January 2009

Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1.     A Revolution in Forensic Science?
                     Interlude A.   DNA Profiling Techniques
Chapter 2.     A Techno-Legal Controversy
                     Interlude B.   Admissibility, Controversy, and Judicial Metascience
Chapter 3.     Molecular Biology and the Dispersion of Technique
Chapter 4.     Chains of Custody and Administrative Objectivity
                     Interlude C: The U.K. National DNA Database
Chapter 5.     Deconstructing Probability in the Case R. v. Deen
                     Interlude D.   Bayesians, Frequentists, and the DNA Database Search Controversy
Chapter 6.     Science, Common Sense, and DNA Evidence
Chapter 7.     Fixing Controversy, Performing Closure
Chapter 8.     Postclosure
                     Interlude E.    Fingerprinting and Probability
Chapter 9.     Fingerprinting: An Inversion of Credibility
Chapter 1.     Finality?

Cases
References
Index
Awards
  • Choice Outstanding Academic Title Awards
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