DNA Technology in Forensic Science

DNA Technology in Forensic Science
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 199
Release: 1992-02-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309045878

Matching DNA samples from crime scenes and suspects is rapidly becoming a key source of evidence for use in our justice system. DNA Technology in Forensic Science offers recommendations for resolving crucial questions that are emerging as DNA typing becomes more widespread. The volume addresses key issues: Quality and reliability in DNA typing, including the introduction of new technologies, problems of standardization, and approaches to certification. DNA typing in the courtroom, including issues of population genetics, levels of understanding among judges and juries, and admissibility. Societal issues, such as privacy of DNA data, storage of samples and data, and the rights of defendants to quality testing technology. Combining this original volume with the new update-The Evaluation of Forensic DNA Evidence-provides the complete, up-to-date picture of this highly important and visible topic. This volume offers important guidance to anyone working with this emerging law enforcement tool: policymakers, specialists in criminal law, forensic scientists, geneticists, researchers, faculty, and students.

American Fair Trade

American Fair Trade
Author: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2018-01-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108548040

Rather than viewing the history of American capitalism as the unassailable ascent of large-scale corporations and free competition, American Fair Trade argues that trade associations of independent proprietors lobbied and litigated to reshape competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the twentieth century, this widespread fair trade movement borrowed from progressive law and economics, demonstrating a persistent concern with market fairness - not only fair prices for consumers but also fair competition among businesses. Proponents of fair trade collaborated with regulators to create codes of fair competition and influenced the administrative state's public-private approach to market regulation. New Deal partnerships in planning borrowed from those efforts to manage competitive markets, yet ultimately discredited the fair trade model by mandating economy-wide trade rules that sharply reduced competition. Laura Phillips Sawyer analyzes how these efforts to reconcile the American tradition of a well-regulated society with the legacy of Gilded Age of laissez-faire capitalism produced the modern American regulatory state.

American Theocracy

American Theocracy
Author: Kevin Phillips
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 585
Release: 2006-03-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1101218843

An explosive examination of the coalition of forces that threatens the nation, from the bestselling author of American Dynasty In his two most recent bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that rule—and imperil—the United States, tracing the ever more alarming path of the emerging Republican majority’s rise to power. Now Phillips takes an uncompromising view of the current age of global overreach, fundamentalist religion, diminishing resources, and ballooning debt under the GOP majority. With an eye to the past and a searing vision of the future, Phillips confirms what too many Americans are still unwilling to admit about the depth of our misgovernment.

Just Pursuit

Just Pursuit
Author: Laura Coates
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2022-01-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1982173769

"A ... true story and ... account of bias in the courtroom from CNN senior legal analyst Laura Coates, recounting her time as a Black female prosecutor for the US Department of Justice"--

A Deeper, Darker Truth

A Deeper, Darker Truth
Author: Donald T. Phillips
Publisher: Donald T Phillips
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2009-11-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0615334016

Confessions, Truth, and the Law

Confessions, Truth, and the Law
Author: Joseph D. Grano
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1996
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780472084159

An analysis of the Miranda decision and the rights of the accused in the criminal justice system