DNA and the criminal justice system : the technology of justice / edited by David Lazer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lazer, David.

Series:

Basic bioethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

DNA fingerprinting--United States.

DNA fingerprinting.

Forensic genetics.

United States.

Forensic genetics--United States--Databases.

Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Genre:

Databases.

Physical Description:

xviii, 414 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2004]

Summary:

Is DNA technology the ultimate diviner of guilt or the ultimate threat to civil liberties? Over the past decade DNA has been used to exonerate hundreds and to convict thousands. Its expanded use over the coming decade promises to recalibrate significantly the balance between collective security and individual freedom. For example, it is possible that law enforcement DNA databases will expand to include millions of individuals not convicted of any crime. Moreover, depending on what rules govern access, such databases could also be used for purposes that range from determining paternity to assessing predispositions to certain diseases or behaviors. Thus the use of DNA technology will involve tough trade-offs between individual and societal interests.

This book, written by a distinguished group of authors including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, explores the ethical, procedural, and economic challenges posed by the use of DNA evidence as well as future directions for the technology. After laying the conceptual historical, legal, and scientific groundwork for the debate, the book considers bioethical issues raised by the collection of DNA, including the question of control over DNA databases. The authors then turn to the possible genetic bases of human behavior and the implications of this still-unresolved issue for the criminal justice system. Finally, the book examines the current debate over the many roles that DNA can and should play in criminal justice.

Contents:

Preface. DNA: Diviner of Guilt or Threat to Liberty? xi

I Laying the Groundwork 1

1 Introduction: DNA and the Criminal Justice System / David Lazer 3

2 Furthering the Conversation about Science and Society / Stephen Breyer 13

3 Science and Technology of Forensic DNA Profiling: Current Use and Future Directions / Frederick R. Bieber 23

4 Fingerprint Identification and the Criminal Justice System: Historical Lessons for the DNA Debate / Simon A. Cole 63

5 The Relative Priority that Should Be Assigned to Trial Stage DNA Issues / Edward J. Imwinkelried 91

6 Lessons from DNA: Restriking the Balance between Finality and Justice / Margaret A. Berger 109

II Balancing Privacy and Security 133

7 Genetic Privacy / George J. Annas 135

8 Ethical and Policy Guidance / R. Alta Charo 147

9 Privacy and Forensic DNA Data Banks / Barry Steinhardt 173

10 DNA Tests and Databases in Criminal Justice: Individual Rights and the Common Good / Amitai Etzioni 197

11 Strands of Privacy: DNA Databases, Informational Privacy, and the OECD Guidelines / Viktor Mayer-Schonberger 225

12 DNA Databases for Law Enforcement: The Coverage Question and the Case for a Population-Wide Database / D. H. Kaye, Michael E. Smith 247

III The Coming Storm: Crime and Behavioral Genetics 285

13 DNA and Human-Behavior Genetics: Implications for the Criminal Justice System / Garland Allen 287

14 Selective Arrests, an Ever-Expanding DNA Forensic Database, and the Specter of an Early-Twenty-First-Century Equivalent of Phrenology / Troy Duster 315

IV Defining the Discourse 335

15 DNA's Identity Crisis / Sheila Jasanoff 337

16 DNA and the Criminal Justice System: Consensus and Debate / David Lazer, Michelle N. Meyer 357.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0262122650

026262186X

OCLC:

54905672