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.
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The author would like to thank Ruth Hubbard and Sudhir Rajan for comments on an earlier version of this paper.
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Byravan, S. DNA Typing: A technology of fear. Development 49, 28–32 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.development.1100294
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