DNA Typing: A technology of fear

Author: Byravan, Sujatha

Source: Development, Volume 49, Number 4, December 2006 , pp. 28-32(5)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Abstract:

The expansion of DNA databases in the United States, Europe and a few other countries to include not just convicted felons but arrestees, who might be innocent, raises a number of civil rights concerns. Sujatha Byravan explores how the use of DNA typing in forensics and immigration, given the current climate of fear, in the quest for a safer world, could legitimize discrimination and give rise to a new apartheid.Development (2006) 49, 28-32. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100294

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.development.1100294

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