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Nature 460, 34-35 (2 July 2009) | doi:10.1038/460034a; Published online 1 July 2009
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When DNA goes on trial
Peter Gill1
Abstract
The science of DNA profiling is firm, but the way that the adversarial justice system interprets probability can cause controversy, argues Peter Gill.
BOOK REVIEWED-Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting
by Michael Lynch, Simon A. Cole, Ruth McNally & Kathleen Jordan
University of Chicago Press: 2009. 416 pp. $37.50
At the heart of Truth Machine lies the fundamental debate about the evaluation of probabilistic risk. The book examines the use of DNA tests in legal proceedings and the development of DNA-profiling methods in the United Kingdom and the United States.
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