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This 7 page paper outlines the history of DNA analysis in criminal justice. Successes and failures are delineated. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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The ways society goes about proving guilt or innocence in criminal justice has changed dramatically since the mid-twentieth century. At the focal point of much
of that change is DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). DNA can be used to identify both criminals and victims and is now considered one of the most definitive types of proof
in a court of law. DNA fingerprinting is hardly new but it is finding more and more use as our familiarity and expertise
with the process improves over time. Discovered just over twenty-five years ago by Alec Jeffreys of Leicester University, DNA fingerprinting has become a mainstay in a diversity of fields
(History Today, 2009). It is used in everything from criminal investigations, to medicine, to environmental research. DNA fingerprinting is used to prove the parentage of children, to identify
criminals based on evidence found at crime scenes, to identify soldiers, civilians and terrorists killed in war, to gain information about plant and wildlife populations, and in numerous other applications.
DNA fingerprinting has even been used to trace the source of E. coli outbreaks. An even more fascinating application of DNA fingerprinting is the use of biological material
added to goods for the purpose of documenting their authenticity (Kutner, 2010). Each of these applications has potential use in criminal justice. Consider, for example, the usefulness of
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