Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting
Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting
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真相机器：DNA 指纹识别的争议历史
DOI：
10.5860/choice.46-6244
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发表时间：
2009
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通讯作者：
Kathleen Jordan
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作者：
M. Lynch;S. Cole;R. McNally;Kathleen Jordan
DNA 分析（通常称为 DNA 指纹识别）通常被誉为无懈可击的刑事证据，是名副其实的“真相机器”，可以推翻基于目击者证词、供词和其他形式的法医证据的定罪。但 DNA 证据远非绝对可靠。与刑事司法实践的任何其他方面一样，在样本收集、法医分析和文书记录保存方面，它也有可能出现错误。 《Truth Machine》通过查看从 20 世纪 80 年代中期 DNA 指纹识别技术发明以来一直延续至今的美国和英国法庭案件，追溯了 DNA 指纹识别技术备受争议的历史。通过访谈、对法庭审判和实验室流程的观察以及文献重建，作者对 DNA 指纹及其演变提供了细致入微、理论复杂且原创的民族志描述。最终，“真理机器”提供了科学、技术、社会学和法律交叉领域的障碍和机遇的令人信服的证据。
DNA profiling--commonly known as DNA fingerprinting--is often heralded as unassailable criminal evidence, a veritable "truth machine" that can overturn convictions based on eyewitness testimony, confessions, and other forms of forensic evidence. But DNA evidence is far from infallible. It is subject to the same possibilities for error--in sample collection, forensic analysis, and clerical record keeping--as any other aspect of criminal justice practice. "Truth Machine" traces the controversial history of DNA fingerprinting by looking at court cases in the United States and United Kingdom beginning in the mid-1980s, when the practice was invented, and continuing until the present. Using interviews, observations of courtroom trials and laboratory processes, and documentary reconstruction, the authors provide a nuanced, theoretically sophisticated, and original ethnographic account of DNA fingerprinting and its evolution. Ultimately, "Truth Machine "presents compelling evidence of the obstacles and opportunities at the intersection of science, technology, sociology, and law.