Genetic Justice : DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties /

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Author / Creator:Krimsky, Sheldon, author.
Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.
Description:1 online resource (xviii, 406 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11123567
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Other authors / contributors:Simoncelli, Tania.
ISBN:9780231517805
0231517807
0231145209
9780231145206
9780231145206
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English.
Print version record.
Summary:National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders. However, since the mid-1990s, forensic DNA databanks have expanded in some states and nations to include all people who have been arrested, regardless of whether they've been charged or convicted of a crime. The public is largely unaware of these changes and the advances in biotechnology and forensic DNA science that have made them possible, but we are beginning to realize that the unfettered collection of DNA profiles from innocent citizens has compromised our basic fr.
Other form:Print version: Krimsky, Sheldon. Genetic justice. New York : Columbia University Press, 2011 9780231145206
Standard no.:10.7312/krim14520