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Competing Paradigms? The Use Of Dna Powers In Youth Justice, Liz Campbell
Competing Paradigms? The Use Of Dna Powers In Youth Justice, Liz Campbell
Faculty Scholarship
Collecting deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) from crime scenes and individuals is now regarded as a critical element of effective criminal investigation and prosecution. Numerous benefits are said to accrue from the gathering and comparison of DNA evidence: suspects may be speedily identified, innocent parties ruled out, the wrongfully convicted exonerated and some would-be criminal actors deterred. Retention of DNA in state controlled databases allows for speculative searching to identify subsequent offending and to provide leads for unsolved crimes. The collection and retention of convicted adults’ DNA has been held by European and US courts to be a proportionate incursion on human …
China's "Attitude" Toward Human Rights: Reading Hungdah Chiu In The Era Of The Iraq War, Dongsheng Zang
China's "Attitude" Toward Human Rights: Reading Hungdah Chiu In The Era Of The Iraq War, Dongsheng Zang
Maryland Journal of International Law
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