We are grateful to a number of friends and colleagues who have contributed to this project. We wish to acknowledge the following people for their thoughtful help, support, and advice.
We are most appreciative of the feedback we received from the following U.S. reviewers who commented on early chapters: Bruce Budowle, Michael Risher, and Professors Joseph Dumit, Troy Duster, Dan Krane, and Patricia Williams. A number of people outside the United States also made important contributions to this book. For chapter 9 (the United Kingdom), Dr. Helen Wallace and Professor Carole McCartney. For chapter 10 (Japan), we are especially indebted to Emi Omura for researching and translating many documents, initiating contacts, and setting up and translating interviews with Japanese officials, lawyers, and professors. Others in Japan who provided useful knowledge include Professors Hikaru Tokunaga, Kenji Sasaki, Katsunori Kai, and Tatsuhiko Yamamoto, and Hiroshi Sato. For chapter 11 (Australia), Professors Jeremy Gans and Charles Lawson. For chapter 12 (Germany), Professors Michael Jasch and Peter Schneider for providing detailed background on Germany’s forensic DNA database system. For chapter 13 (Italy), Gianna Milano contributed primary research, interpreted Italian reports, and wrote multiple drafts. Others in Italy—Magistrate Amedeo Santosuosso, Professor Giuseppe Novelli, Luca dello Iacovo, and Dr. Luciano Garofano—also read and commented on the chapter.
Our thanks to Dara Jospe and Claire Giammaria for their editorial work and research on early chapters.
Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, directors of the Innocence Project in New York, and their staff, especially Madeline DeLone, Stephen Saloon, Rebecca Brown, Emily West, and Vanessa Potkin, provided background material and data that contributed to several chapters. Chapter 16 benefited greatly from the work of and discussions with Professor William C. Thompson.
Sheldon Krimsky wishes to express his gratitude to the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, and especially Professor David Rosner, for hosting him as a visiting scholar and providing him with an office during 2007–2008; to the Benjamin Cardozo Law School for hosting him as a visiting scholar and for the use of its law library during 2007–2009; and to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for hosting him as a visiting scholar and providing him with an office during the period this book was in its early gestation. Professor Margaret M. Wallace at John Jay College of Criminal Justice welcomed Sheldon to her laboratory course on forensic DNA analysis to watch her students go through all the steps in preparing a biological sample for a DNA profile and interpreting the output from a DNA analyzer.
Tania Simoncelli would like to thank the ACLU for providing her with the opportunity to engage in national policy debates and initiatives that are central to the contents of this book. She is grateful in particular to the following people in the organization who supported this effort: Anthony Romero, Barry Steinhardt, Terrence Dougherty, Robert Perry, Michael Risher, Jay Stanley, Claire Giammaria, Noam Biale, Mary Bonventre, Chris Hansen, and Sandra Park. She also would like to thank Troy Duster for hosting her as a visiting scholar at the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University during 2008.
Finally, we are greatly appreciative of our editorial team at Columbia University Press, Patrick Fitzgerald and Bridget Flannery-McCoy, for their support, patience, and guidance, and of the superb copyediting of Charles Eberline and John Donohue of Westchester Book Services.