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Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting

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Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting - Lynch, Michael, and Cole, Simon A, and McNally, Ruth
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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, ...

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Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting 2011, University of Chicago Press

ISBN-13: 9780226498072

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Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting 2008, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226498065

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