| Human Identification: The Use of DNA Markers Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Weir, B. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9401718032 ISBN-13: 9789401718035 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $160.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Genetics - Law | Medical Law & Legislation - Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - General |
| Dewey: 344.032 |
| Series: Contemporary Issues in Genetics and Evolution |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.70 lbs) 215 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The ongoing debate on the use of DNA profiles to identify perpetrators in criminal investigations or fathers in paternity disputes has too often been conducted with no regard to sound statistical, genetic or legal reasoning. The contributors to Human Identification: The Use of DNA Markers all have considerable experience in forensic science, statistical genetics or jurimetrics, and many of them have had to explain the scientific issues involved in using DNA profiles to judges and juries. Although the authors hold differing views on some of the issues, they have all produced accounts which pay due attention to the, sometimes troubling, issues of independence of components of the profiles and of population substructures. The book presents the considerable evolution of ideas that has occurred since the 1992 Report of the National Research Council of the U.S. Audience: Indispensable to forensic scientists, laying out the concepts to all those with an interest in the use of genetic information. The chapters and exhaustive bibliography are vital information for all lawyers who must prosecute or defend DNA cases, and to judges trying such cases. |
