Genes R Us Ethics and Truth in DNA

Haraway Donna , Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMancp_Meets_OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience, Routledge, New York, 1997, p.149.

Knowles Ron , Lets gob swab the lot of them, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 April 2000. See too ‘Test them all: Beattie's plan for prisoner DNA blitz’, Sunday Mail, 14 April 2001, p.1.

Refer generally to Gans J. , ‘A Critique of the Police's Right to ask for DNA’ The Use of DNA in the Criminal Justice System, Seminar presented by the Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney, 11 April 2001.

See generally Meagher D. , The Quiet Revolution — A Brief History of Analysis of the Growth of Forensic Police Powers in Victoria, (2000) Criminal Law Journal 76 particularly at p.84 onward.

Meagher D. , above, pp.76, 82.

Mobbs J. , ‘The National Criminal Investigation DNA Database — An Investigative Tool for the Future’, The Use of DNA in the Criminal Justice System, Seminar presented by the Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney, 11 April 2001.

Model Criminal Code Officers Committee of the Standing Committee of Attorney's General, Model Forensic Procedures Bill and the Proposed DNA Database, May 1999, p.2.

For example the re-examination of the case of Colin Ross who was hanged for murder in the early 1920s.

Wilson-Wilde L. , ‘DNA Profiling and its Impacton Policing’, The Use of DNA in the Criminal Justice System, Seminar presented by the Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney, 11 April 2001. See too the overturning of the conviction in R v Button, [2001] QCA 133.

Refer generally Roberts H. , ‘Interpretation of DNA Evidence in Courts of Law: A Survey of Issues’, (1998) 30(1) Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences 29.

Moynihan R. , DNA testing threatens freedoms: Kirby', Australian Financial Review, 14 April 2000, cited in Heasler A. , ‘An Overview of DNA Testing and the New Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Act 2000’, The Use of DNA in the Criminal Justice System, Seminar presented by the Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney, 11 April 2001, p.2. See too Hocking B. McCallum H. Smith A. and Butler C , ‘Human Rights and the Criminal Justice System’, (1997) 3 Australian Journal of Human Rights.

Meagher D. , The Quiet Revolution — A Brief History and Analysis of the Growth of Police Powers in Victoria, (2000) 24 Criminal Law Journal 76 at 77.

Easteal P. and Easteal S. , ‘Report to the Australian Police Ministers Council- The Forensic Use of DNA Profiling in Australia: Need for a National database’, Australian Institute of Criminology, 1991.

Crimes Act 1958 (Vic) — Part 4.

Mobbs , above, ref 7, p.27.

Haesler A. , above, ref 12.

Young W. Tinsley Y. and Cameron N. , The Effectiveness and Efficiency of Jury Decision Making, (2000) Criminal Law Journal 89. See further Hocking B. , and others, above, ref 12.

Table listing possible sources of DNA, Wilson-Wilde L. , above, ref 10, p.4.

Wilson-Wilde L. , above, ref 10, p.3.

Wilson-Wilde L. , above, ref 10, p.5.

Redmayne M. , ‘Doubts and Burdens: DNA Evidence, Probability and the Courts’, (1995) Criminal Law Review 464.

Meagher D. , above, ref 5, pp.76, 78.

Wilson-Wilde L. , above, ref 10, p.4.

R v Borham (unreported 3/11/92 CCA NSW) as cited in Haesler A. , above, ref 12, p.28.

For a general discussion of the pitfalls in the jury system see Young W. Tinsley Y. and Cameron N. , ‘The Effectiveness and Efficiency of Jury Decision Making’, (2000) Criminal Law Journal 89.

For example the Chamberlain case.

Fleising Usher , ‘Genetic Essentialism, Mana, and the Meaning of DNA’ (2001) 20 New Genetics and Society 43.

Starr Cecie and Taggert Ralph , Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life, Wadsworth, Belmont, 5th edn, 1989, p.430.

Haraway Donna , above, ref 1, p.146.

Fleising Usher , above, ref 29, pp.45–6.

Haraway Donna , above, ref 1, p.149.

Murphy Tim , ‘Britcrits: Subversion and Submission, Past, Present and Future’, (1999) 10 Law and Critique 237.

Murphy Tim , above.

Hogg Russell and Brown David , Rethinking Law and Order, Pluto Press, Annandale, 1998.

An innocently, benefital sounding legislative phrase that legalised the removal of indigenous people. See Cubillo v Commonwealth of Australia (2000) 174 ALR 97.

Wilson Ronald , Bringing them Home: National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Children from their Families, HREOC, Canberra, 1997.

Haraway Donna , above, ref 1, pp.131–72.

Beebe Barton , ‘Law's Empire and the Final Frontier: Legalizing the Future in the Earlyorpus Juris Spatialia’, (1999) 108 Yale Law Journal 1737, 1771.

Moyle Paul , Profiting from Punishment: Private Prisons in Australia: Reform or Regression? Pluto Press, 2000; Stuart Russell , ‘Private Prisons for Private Profit’, (1997) 22 Alternative Law Journal 7–9.

Haraway Donna , above, ref 1, pp.145–6.

Wilson-Wilde L. , above, ref 10, p.5.

Meggison W.S. , Forensic Science, Certainty and Fallibility: Justice in the Age of Technology', (2001) 4 Alternative Law Journal(this issue).

Burbach Roger , Globalization and Postmodern Politics: From Zapatistas to High-Tech Robber Barons, Pluto Press, 2001, p.44.

Thornton Margaret , 'Neo-liberalism, Discrimination and the Politics of Ressentment, (2000) 18 Law in Context 8; Carney Terry and Ramia Gaby , ‘From Citizenship to Contractualism: The Transition from Unemployment Benefits to Employment Services in Australia’ (1999) 6 Australian Journal of Administrative Law 117.

See generally Bauman Zygmunt , Postmodernity and its Discontents, New York University Press, 1997.

Salleh Ariel , Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern, Zed Books, London, 1997.

Shapiro Michael , 'Is Bioethics Broke? On the Idea of Ethics and Law ‘Catching Up’ with Technology? (1999) 33 Indiana Law Review 20, 39

For a contemporary Australian perspective see Petersen Alan Barns Ian Dudley Janice and Harris Patricia , (eds), Poststructuralism, Citizenship and Social Policy, Routledge, 1999.

Heidegger Martin ‘Question Concerning Technology’, in Krell David Farrel , (ed.), Martin Heidegger Basic Writings, Routledge, 1993. pp.311–341.

Heidegger Martin , above, pp.330–3.

Zimmerman Michael , Heidegger's Confrontation with Modernity: Technology, Politics and Art, Indiana University Press, 1990, p.219.