Genetic Suspects (eBook, ePUB)

Global Governance of Forensic DNA Profiling and Databasing
Redaktion: Hindmarsh, Richard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As DNA forensic profiling and databasing become established as key technologies in the toolbox of the forensic sciences, their expanding use raises important issues that promise to touch everyone's lives. In an authoritative global investigation of a diverse range of countries, including those at the forefront of these technologies' development and use, this book identifies and provides critical reflection upon the many issues of privacy; distributive justice; DNA information system ownership; biosurveillance; function creep; the reliability of collection, storage and analysis of DNA profiles; the possibility of transferring medical DNA information to forensics databases; and democratic involvement and transparency in governance, an emergent key theme. This book is timely and significant in providing the essential background and discussion of the ethical, legal and societal dimensions for academics, practitioners, public interest and criminal justice organisations, and students of the life sciences, law, politics, and sociology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511850493
• Artikelnr.: 53000661

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; About the contributors; Foreword Sheila Jasanoff;
Acknowledgments; 1. Introducing Genetic Suspects Richard Hindmarsh and
Barbara Prainsack; Part I. Key Areas in DNA Profiling and Databasing: 2.
Key issues in DNA profiling and databasing: implications for governance
Barbara Prainsack; 3. Forensic utilization of voluntarily collected DNA
samples: law enforcement versus human rights Elazar Zadok, Gali Ben-Or and
Gabriela Fisman; 4. Base assumptions? Racial aspects of US DNA forensics
Harriet A. Washington; 5. Health and wealth, law and order: banking DNA
against disease and crime Richard Tutton and Mairi Levitt; 6. DNA profiling
versus fingerprint evidence: more of the same? Simon A. Cole and Michael
Lynch; Part II. National Contexts of Forensic DNA Technologies and Key
Issues: 7. DNA databases and the forensic imaginary Robin Williams; 8.
Partners in crime: on the use of forensic DNA technologies in Austria
Barbara Prainsack; 9. Inquisitorial forensic DNA profiling in the
Netherlands and the expansion of the forensic genetic body Victor Toom; 10.
DNA - the Nor-way: black boxing the evidence and monopolising the key
Johanne Yttri Dahl; 11. Portuguese forensic DNA database: political
enthusiasm, public trust and probable issues in future practice Helena
Machado and Susana Silva; 12. On trial! Governing forensic DNA technologies
in the United States Jay D. Aronson; 13. Biosurveillance and biocivic
concerns, from 'truth' to 'trust': the Australian forensic DNA terrain
Richard Hindmarsh; 14. Finding the balance: forensic DNA profiling in New
Zealand Johanna S. Veth and Gerald Midgley; 15. Forensic DNA profiling and
databasing: the Philippines experience Maria Corazon De Ungria and Jose
Manguera Jose; 16. Conclusion: beyond borders - trends and challenges in
global forensic profiling and databasing Barbara Prainsack and Richard
Hindmarsh; Index.