DNA profiling and databasing: An analysis of issues and challenges in the criminal justice system of Pakistan

2020 ◽  
pp. 002580242096431
Author(s):  
Rao Munir ◽  
Rana Zamin Abbas ◽  
Noman Arshed
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Dna Profiling ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
Forensic Evidence ◽  
Exclusion Criteria ◽  
Significant Evidence ◽  
Central Database ◽  
Profiling Analysis

The use of DNA as evidence in judicial trials in Pakistan is fraught with issues and challenges, including sampling, profiling, analysis, inclusion and exclusion criteria, insight and oversight mechanisms, invasion of personal privacy, constitutional safeguards and court admissibility issues. These problems have diminished the significance of this robust forensic evidence and hindered the creation of a central database in the country. This paper discusses these issues and introduces suggestions for the inclusion of DNA as significant evidence in the criminal justice system of Pakistan.

scholarly journals FORENSIC EVIDENCE: SCIENCE AND THE CRIMINAL LAW

2020 ◽  
pp. 053
Author(s):  
Filip Mirić
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Forensic Science ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Forensic Sciences ◽  
Forensic Evidence ◽  
The World ◽  
Close Study ◽  
Forensic Scientists

The Book Forensic Evidence: Science and the Criminal Law is intended to serve as an introductionand guide to the appreciation and understanding of the significant historical, contemporary, and future relationship between the world of the forensic sciences and the criminal justice system. This book is not intended to be a close study of forensic science, nor was it ever conceived as becoming one. It is devoted to a study of the judicial response to uses of forensic science in all phases of criminal procedure. The audience to which this study is directed are those intimately or potentially involved in that relationship: police, forensic scientists, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and professors and students- future lawyers.

scholarly journals Investigating the Ethics of DNA Collection by CODIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanay Subramanian ◽  
Alicia Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Index System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Major Contributor ◽  
Red Flags ◽  
Forensic Evidence ◽  
Dna Index ◽  
Dna Collection ◽  
Dna Profiles

America's criminal justice system has experienced controversy for decades and it seems as if the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), an FBI criminal justice database that stores the DNA profiles of millions of Americans, is a major contributor to it. Due to CODIS, an individual’s DNA is collected and permanently stored upon arrest, resulting in major red flags like privacy violations and marginalization. However, there are potential solutions - although each has its drawbacks - to this problem, in order of increasing efficacy: mandating the DNA collection of all Americans to alleviate biases, adopting a solely fingerprint-based system as forensic evidence, and terminating CODIS entirely.

The impact of DNA on criminal investigation

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-108
Author(s):  
Colin Dale
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Dna Profiling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
First Case ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the discovery of the application of DNA profiling to the criminal justice system. Design/methodology/approach Researching the origins of the discovery of the application of DNA to the criminal justice system via an analysis of the first case in which it was applied to. Findings It was discovered that the first application of DNA profiling to the criminal justice system meant that a young man with intellectual disabilities was saved from wrongful prosecution. The case study also raises ethical issues concerning the mass screening of targeted populations by way of DNA. Originality/value The case study is descriptive in nature and draws from earlier work describing the events which unfolded.

DNA Fingerprinting: A Major Tool for Crime Investigation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shweta Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Dna Fingerprinting ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Dna Profiling ◽  
The Past ◽  
Crime Investigation ◽  
The Law

DNA profiling has revolutionized the criminal justice system over the past decades. It has even enabled the law enforcement from exonerating people who have been convicted wrongfully of crimes which they did not commit.

Forensic Evidence and Terrorist Trials in the United Kingdom

1995 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive Walker ◽  
Russell Stockdale
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Forensic Evidence ◽  
The United Kingdom

The issue of miscarriages of justice1 has been at the heart of much recent discourse—legal, political and social—concerning the English criminal justice system. Indeed the crisis of confidence in the system has prompted attempts to re-establish legitimacy, which include such tried and tested methods as changes of personnel,2 and the appointment of a wide-ranging Royal Commission 3 which followed the attempt to quell the disquiet by the more focused May Inquiry.4 Much of the concern has arisen from the conduct of terrorist trials in Britain in the mid-1970s, the most important and significant 5 of which for the purposes of this paper were the trials of groups of terrorist suspects commonly known as the Birmingham 6,6

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