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DNA DATABASES: CRIME-FIGHTING WEAPON OR THREAT TO PRIVACY?

Q.1- What are The Benefits of DNA Databases?

Ans:- There are also huge benefits to be gained from the considerable

reduction in crime that would occur if there DNA database.DNA

Databases Benefits Are Given Below ............

1. Computer analysis can discover the identity a criminal by

matching DNA from blood, hair , saliva, or other bodily fluids

left at a crime scene with a DNA profile in Databases.

2. DNA identification is also helpful in proving innocence.

3. DNA databases remain Controversial.

4. It would also help young boys to stop turning into 'bad' criminals

because they would be caught at an earlier stage in their criminal

careers.

Q-2 What problems do DNA database pose?

Ans:- There are many problem for an innocent person's DNA to

be at crime scene that police might choose to disregard. Innocent

people may be caught up in a criminal investigation when their

DNA. In some instance, DNA has been collected from witness or

others to eliminate them from police inquiries. DNA has been

collected from families of suspects should continue to be pursued.

Q.3 Who should be including in a national DNA databases? Should

it be limited to convicted felons? Explain your Answer.

Ans:- The Bush administration and some state legislator have

advocated expanding the FBI DNA databases to include juveniles

or people who have been accused of crimes but not convicted.

Q.4 Who should be able to use DNA databases?

Ans:- Most people aren’t violent criminals, including those who

commit misdemeanors, and their inclusion in a national DNA

databases exposes them to risks they would not otherwise face.

Innocent people may be caught up in a criminal investigation

when their DNA from a single hair or spot of saliva on a drinking

glass appeas in a public or private place where they had every

right to be.

Q.5 How does CODIS work? How is it designed?

Ans:- According to CODIS markers are determined by lab work.

CODIS uses two indexes to generate investigative leads in crimes

for which biological evidence is recovered from a crime scene.

These are arranged in order of most common population to least

common population having your exact set of markers .CODIS

uses computer software to automatically search across these

indexes for a potential match.

Q.6 What information does CODIS maintain?

Ans:- CODIS contains the profiles of convicted offender, contains

arrestees persons profile, DNA profiles collected from crime

scenes,missing persons profile, contains DNA profiles developed

from unidentified human remains, contains DNA profiles

contributed from relatives of missing person.CODIS had data on

more than 1.8 million proflies, the, samples on which tha DNA

profiles are based, primarily blood or salive, are kept at forensic

laboratories around the world.

Q.7 Who is allowed to use CODIS ?

Ans:- A total of 175 crime labs in all 50 states and Puerto Rico ...

as well as the FBI Lab and the U.S. Army Crime Lab. And, in a sign

of how effective the system is, 31 labs in 18 nations worldwide also

use CODIS, but they are not connected to any DNA databases here

in the U.S. They simply borrow the FBI's technology to help

investigations in their own countries, much as we do here.

Q.8 How does CODIS aid criminal investigation?

Ans:- CODIS generates investigative leads in cases where

biological evidence is recovered from the crime scene. The

development and expansion of databases that contain DNA

profiles at the local, State, and national levels have greatly

enhanced law enforcement's ability to solve cases with DNA.

Matches made between the Forensic and Offender Indexes

provide investigators with the identity of a suspected perpetrator.

Even if a perpetrator is not identified through the database,crimes

may be linked to each other, thereby aiding an investigation, which

may eventually lead to the identification of a suspect.

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