Truth Machine
The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting
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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
American Sociological Association: ASA-Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Distinguished Publication Award
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Choice Magazine: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Awards
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Biological Sciences: Microbiology
History: History of Technology
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Sociology: Criminology, Delinquency, Social Control
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