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

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004.

25501

Forensic sciences -- United States.

Criminal justice, administration of -- United States.

Genetics -- United States.

Series foreword

Preface DNA: diviner of guilt or threat to liberty?

Acknowledgements

1. Laying the groundwork: 1. Introduction: DNA and the criminal justice system

2. Furthering the conversation about science and society

3. Science and technology of forensic DNA profiling: current use and future directions

4. Fingerprint identification and the criminal justice system: historical lessons for the DNA debate

5. The relative priority that should be assigned to trial stage DNA issues

6. Lessons from DNA: restriking the balance between finality and justice

2. Balancing privacy and security: 7. Genetic privacy

8. Ethical and policy guidance

9. Privacy and forensic DNA data banks

10. DNA tests and databases in criminal justice: individual rights and the common good

11. Strands of privacy: DNA databases, informational privacy, and the OECD guidelines

12. DNA databases for law enforcement: the coverage question and the case for a population-wide database

3. The coming storm: crime and behavioural genetics: 13. DNA and human-behaviour genetics: implications for the criminal justice system

14. Selective arrests, and ever-expanding DNA forensic database, and the spectre of an early-twenty-first-century equivalent of phrenology

4. Defining the discourse: 15. DNA's identity crisis

16. DNA and the criminal justice system: consensus and debate

Index.

026262186X

xviii, 414 p. : ill.