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Book Review: The Genetic Imaginary: DNA in the Canadian Criminal Justice System

2005· article· en· 0 citations· W2083539232 on OpenAlex· 10.1177/0963662505054560

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About CanadaIts subject is Canada, wherever its authors sit.

No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame — the usual design — would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

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All three models called this out of scope.

stratum: about_only · design weight: 3321.24 (the sample is stratified; any rate computed without the weight is wrong)
Claude Opus 4.8T3 · adjacent, not in scope
genre: editorial/commentary
about Canada: no
confidence: medium

Book review in Public Understanding of Science of an STS book on DNA in the Canadian criminal justice system; commentary on science-and-society scholarship, mapped but not pooled, and the object is forensic practice rather than the Canadian research system.

GPT-5.6 (high)T3 · adjacent, not in scope
genre: editorial/commentary
about Canada: no
confidence: high

This is a book review providing contextual discussion rather than an analytic research study.

Grok 4.5OUT
genre: editorial/commentary
about Canada: no
confidence: low

Book review of DNA in Canadian criminal justice; thin abstract and object is forensics/society, not research practice.

Abstract

International audience

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The record

Venue
Public Understanding of Science
Topic
Race, Genetics, and Society
Field
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Canadian institutions
Funders
Keywords
The ImaginaryCriminal justiceEconomic JusticeSociologyCriminologyPolitical scienceLawPsychologyPsychoanalysis
Has abstract in OpenAlex
yes