DNA and the criminal justice system : the technology of justice / edited by David Lazer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Basic bioethicsPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004.Description: xviii, 414 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0262122650 (alk. paper)
  • 026262186X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • KF 9666.5 .D63 2004
Contents:
Laying the groundwork. DNA and the criminal justice system / David Lazer ; Furthering the conversation about science and society / Stephen Breyer ; Science and technology of forensic DNA profiling: current use and future directions / Frederick R. Bieber ; Fingerprint identification and the criminal justice system: historical lessons for the DNA debate / Simon A. Cole ; The relative priority that should be assigned to trial stage DNA issues / Edward J. Imwinkelried ; Lessons from DNA: restriking the balance between finality and justice / Margaret A. Berger -- Balancing privacy and security. Genetic privacy / George J. Annas ; Ethical and policy guidance / R. Alta Charo ; Privacy and forensic DNA data banks / Barry Steinhardt ; DNA tests and databases in criminal justice: individual rights and the common good / Amitai Etzioni ; Strands of privacy: DNA databases, informational privacy, and the OECD guidelines / Viktor Mayer-Schn���?berger ; DNA databases for law enforcement: the coverage question and the case for a population-wide database / D. H. Kaye and Michael E. Smith -- The coming storm: crime and behavioral genetics. DNA and human-behavior genetics: implications for the criminal justice system / Garland Allen ; Selective arrests, an ever-expanding DNA forensic database, and the specter of an early-twenty-first-century equivalent of phrenology / Troy Duster -- Defining the discourse. DNA's identity crisis / Sheila Jasanoff ; DNA and the criminal justice system: consensus and debate / David Lazer and Michelle N. Meyer.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Laying the groundwork. DNA and the criminal justice system / David Lazer ; Furthering the conversation about science and society / Stephen Breyer ; Science and technology of forensic DNA profiling: current use and future directions / Frederick R. Bieber ; Fingerprint identification and the criminal justice system: historical lessons for the DNA debate / Simon A. Cole ; The relative priority that should be assigned to trial stage DNA issues / Edward J. Imwinkelried ; Lessons from DNA: restriking the balance between finality and justice / Margaret A. Berger -- Balancing privacy and security. Genetic privacy / George J. Annas ; Ethical and policy guidance / R. Alta Charo ; Privacy and forensic DNA data banks / Barry Steinhardt ; DNA tests and databases in criminal justice: individual rights and the common good / Amitai Etzioni ; Strands of privacy: DNA databases, informational privacy, and the OECD guidelines / Viktor Mayer-Schn���?berger ; DNA databases for law enforcement: the coverage question and the case for a population-wide database / D. H. Kaye and Michael E. Smith -- The coming storm: crime and behavioral genetics. DNA and human-behavior genetics: implications for the criminal justice system / Garland Allen ; Selective arrests, an ever-expanding DNA forensic database, and the specter of an early-twenty-first-century equivalent of phrenology / Troy Duster -- Defining the discourse. DNA's identity crisis / Sheila Jasanoff ; DNA and the criminal justice system: consensus and debate / David Lazer and Michelle N. Meyer.

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