Truth machine

University of Chicago Press

2018

9780226498089

A revolution in forensic science? --Interlude A : DNA profiling techniques --A techno-legal controversy --Interlude B : Admissibility, controversy, and judicial metascience --Molecular biology and the dispersion of technique --Chains of custody and administrative objectivity --Interlude C : The U.K. National DNA Database --Deconstructing probability in the case R. v. Deen --Interlude D : Bayesians, frequentists, and the DNA database search controversy --Science, common sense, and DNA evidence --Fixing controversy, performing closure --Postclosure --Interlude E : Fingerprinting and probability --Fingerprinting: an inversion of credibility --Finality?

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