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A 4 page overview of the importance of DNA testing in criminal justice. This paper reviews this importance from the perspective of expanding DNA databases. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Since its discovery DNA has played a progressively greater role in criminal justice. DNA can often even be obtained from the most difficult of crime scenes. Even burned
human skeletons, for example, can provide valuable DNA that helps both in the identification of the victim and in the identification of the perpetrator (Ubelaker, 2009). Often, however, the
utilization of DNA in criminal justice is often surrounded by controversy. Much doubt has been cast, for example, on collection procedures, analytical methodology, and even the chain of custody
linked to DNA samples in various high-profile criminal cases. Nevertheless, programs continue to be implemented that feature DNA analysis to one degree or another. An excellent example can be
found in The University of North Texas Center for Human Identification Project. Headed up by researchers Arthur J. Eisenberg and John
V. Planz ,this program utilizes both mtDNA and STR Analysis of human remains for the purpose of identifying those remains. Eisenberg and Planz (2008) clarify that on any one
day in criminal justice, some 100,000 missing person cases are awaiting resolution. Many of those cases, almost half in fact, are so-called cold cases and have been on the
books for a year or more (Eisenberg and Planz, 2008). Under current policies, some human remains are even at risk of being disposed to free up room for more
current samples (Eisenberg and Planz, 2008). Systematic disposal of these remains would mean, of course, that the hope for these cases being resolved would essentially be thrown out the
window. Indeed, Eisenberg and Planz (2008) have contended that there would be no molecular or physical justification for the investigation to proceed in these cases without a continued collection
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