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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Truth Machine
• Subtitle: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting
• Author: Michael Lynch, Simon Cole, Ruth McNally, Kathleen Jordan
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780226498065
• ISBN: 0226498069
• ID: 04547103
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 703 g
• Dimensions: 60 × 90 × 33 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. January 2009

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