List of contributors About the contributors Foreword Sheila Jasanoff Acknowledgments 1. Introducing Genetic Suspects Richard Hindmarsh and Barbara Prainsack Part I. Key Areas in DNA Profiling and Databasing: 2. Key issues in DNA profiling and databasing: implications for governance Barbara Prainsack 3. Forensic utilization of voluntarily collected DNA samples: law enforcement versus human rights Elazar Zadok, Gali Ben-Or and Gabriela Fisman 4. Base assumptions? Racial aspects of US DNA forensics Harriet A. Washington 5. Health and wealth, law and order: banking DNA against disease and crime Richard Tutton and Mairi Levitt 6. DNA profiling versus fingerprint evidence: more of the same? Simon A. Cole and Michael Lynch Part II. National Contexts of Forensic DNA Technologies and Key Issues: 7. DNA databases and the forensic imaginary Robin Williams 8. Partners in crime: on the use of forensic DNA technologies in Austria Barbara Prainsack 9. Inquisitorial forensic DNA profiling in the Netherlands and the expansion of the forensic genetic body Victor Toom 10. DNA - the Nor-way: black boxing the evidence and monopolising the key Johanne Yttri Dahl 11. Portuguese forensic DNA database: political enthusiasm, public trust and probable issues in future practice Helena Machado and Susana Silva 12. On trial! Governing forensic DNA technologies in the United States Jay D. Aronson 13. Biosurveillance and biocivic concerns, from 'truth' to 'trust': the Australian forensic DNA terrain Richard Hindmarsh 14. Finding the balance: forensic DNA profiling in New Zealand Johanna S. Veth and Gerald Midgley 15. Forensic DNA profiling and databasing: the Philippines experience Maria Corazon De Ungria and Jose Manguera Jose 16. Conclusion: beyond borders - trends and challenges in global forensic profiling and databasing Barbara Prainsack and Richard Hindmarsh Index.
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