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DNA Profiling the Positive Impact Research Paper
Pages:5 (1624 words)
Sources:6
Subject:Technology
Topic:Dna
Document Type:Research Paper
Document:#16863593
Callier, John Huss, and Eric T. Juengst make excellent points about the inherent intrusion into privacy and the lack of logical nexus between the act and its subjects, to wit, randomly screening the criminal background of every college faculty. By contrast, the Akron case should accentuate the close relationship between the objective of having convicted criminals become part of the DNA database for use when attempting solve subsequent crimes should quickly and the means by which it is carried out. After examining the Akron case, it appears that requiring a criminal to participate in a criminal database makes perfect sense and is quite logical and reasonable.
Conclusion
DNA analysis has forever transformed the nature of evidence in criminal prosecutions. It has made identifying and convicting a criminal much easier and more reliable. It does come with a cost, however, that being reduced expectation of the right to privacy. Where convicted criminals are concerned, their right to not have to subject to DNA profiling is trumped by society's right to the most reliable method of identifying criminal perpetrators. Given the scientific certainty and the improving ability to obtain DNA samples less invasively, the ends of DNA profiling or convicted criminals definitely justify the means.
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Callier, Shawneequa L., Huss, John and Juengst, Eric T. "GINA and Preemployment Criminal Background Checks." Hastings Center Report 40 (2010): 15-9
CODIS Combined DNA Index System. December 2008. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Works Cited
Callier, Shawneequa L., Huss, John and Juengst, Eric T. "GINA and Preemployment Criminal Background Checks." Hastings Center Report 40 (2010): 15-9
CODIS Combined DNA Index System. December 2008. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
26 June 2010. < http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/pdf/codisbrochure2.pdf>
Giannelli, P. "ABA Standards on DNA Evidence: Nontestimonial Identification
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