Genetic Suspects: Global Governance of Forensic DNA Profiling and DatabasingRichard Hindmarsh, Barbara Prainsack 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. |
Contents
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law enforcement versus human rights | 40 |
4 Base assumptions? Racial aspects of US DNA forensics | 63 |
banking DNA against disease and crime | 85 |
more of the same? | 105 |
Section 2 National contexts of forensic DNA technologies and key issues | 129 |
blackboxing the evidence and monopolising the key | 197 |
political enthusiasm public trust and probable issues in future practice | 218 |
12 On trial Governing forensic DNA technologies in the USA | 240 |
the Australian forensic DNA terrain | 262 |
forensic DNA profiling in New Zealand | 288 |
the Philippine experience | 309 |
Section 3 Conclusions | 331 |
trends and challenges in global forensic profiling and databasing | 333 |
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Genetic Suspects: Global Governance of Forensic DNA Profiling and Databasing Richard Hindmarsh,Barbara Prainsack No preview available - 2020 |
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