DNA profiling--commonly known as DNA fingerprinting--is often heralded
as unassailable criminal evidence, a veritable "truth machine" that can
overturn convictions based on eyewitness testimony, confessions, and
other forms of forensic evidence. But DNA evidence is far from
infallible. Truth Machine traces the controversial history of DNA
fingerprinting by looking at court cases in the United States and United
Kingdom beginning in the mid-1980s, when the practice was invented, and
continuing until the present. Ultimately, Truth Machine presents
compelling evidence of the obstacles and opportunities at the
intersection of science, technology, sociology, and law.