"Thorough and detailed, Aronson's work will be the definitive treatment of the recent history of DNA typing."-Simon Cole, author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification When DNA profiling was first introduced into the American legal system in 1987, it was heralded as a technology that would revolutionize law enforcement. As an investigative tool, it has lived up to much of this hype-it is regularly used to track down unknown criminals, put murderers and rapists behind bars, and exonerate the innocent. Yet, this promise took ten turbulent years to be...
"Thorough and detailed, Aronson's work will be the definitive treatment of the recent history of DNA typing."-Simon Cole, author of Suspect Identities...
After September 11, with New Yorkers reeling from the World Trade Center attack, Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch proclaimed that his staff would do more than confirm the identity of the individuals who were killed. They would attempt to identify and return to families every human body part recovered from the site that was larger than a thumbnail. As Jay D. Aronson shows, delivering on that promise proved to be a monumentally difficult task. Only 293 bodies were found intact. The rest would be painstakingly collected in 21,900 bits and pieces scattered throughout the skyscrapers'...
After September 11, with New Yorkers reeling from the World Trade Center attack, Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch proclaimed that his staff wo...
This book provides a roadmap for understanding the relationship between technology and human rights law and practice. This title is also available as Open Access.
This book provides a roadmap for understanding the relationship between technology and human rights law and practice. This title is also available as ...
