Screen LibraryThe double helix and the law of evidence
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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Publication Dates: | 2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xvi, 330 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780674035881 (hbk.) 0674035887 (hbk.) |
| Index Number: | D971 |
| CLC: | D971.24 |
| Call Number: | D971.24/K234 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-318) and index. Before DNA : genetic markers -- Trial by mathematics -- The dawn of DNA typing -- The emergence of VNTR profiling -- The intensifying debate over probability and population genetics -- The initial reaction to the 1992 NRC report -- Ending the debate over population genetics -- Moving back to errors and relatives -- Moving on to short tandem repeat loci -- Transcending race and unscrambling mixed stains -- Outside the nucleus : mitochondrial DNA -- Stray hairs -- Learning from DNA. "Bridging law, genetics, and statistics, this book is an authoritative history of the long and tortuous process by which DNA science has been integrated into the American legal system." "In a history both scientifically sophisticated and comprehensible to the nonspecialist, David Kaye weaves together molecular biology, population genetics, the legal rules of evidence, and theories of statistical reasoning as he describes the struggles between prosecutors and defense counsel over the admissibility of genetic proof of identity. Combining scientific exposition with stories of criminal investiga |