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A Brave New World Of Criminal Justice: Neil Gerlach's Genetic Imaginary, Stephen Coughlan
A Brave New World Of Criminal Justice: Neil Gerlach's Genetic Imaginary, Stephen Coughlan
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In this well written and intriguing book, Neil Gerlach asks why the criminal justice system has accepted DNA evidence in much the same way that our Anglo-Saxon predecessors accepted trial by ordeal. Why have we not instead shown the same caution we show polygraph evidence? To be sure, he does not present the issue in those terms, and might shudder at the analogy. Still, the central issue he pursues in the book is the question of how DNA evidence has managed to assume its current aura of infallibility, as evidence which is somehow uniquely objective and "true": how it has …
Peeling An Orange And Finding An Apple – Book Review Of Joseph Magnet And Dwight Dorey Eds., Aboriginal Rights Litigation (Markham: Lexisnexis Butterworths, 2003), Constance Macintosh
Peeling An Orange And Finding An Apple – Book Review Of Joseph Magnet And Dwight Dorey Eds., Aboriginal Rights Litigation (Markham: Lexisnexis Butterworths, 2003), Constance Macintosh
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Aboriginal Rights Litigation suffers from a certain amount of thematic confusion: the reading experience is akin to peeling an orange and finding an apple inside-- a lovely piece of fruit but not the one you expected. And if you wanted to make orange juice, you are simply out of luck.