Wednesday, March 10, 2010

DNA DATABASE; Crime –fighting weapon or threat to privacy?

1} what are the benefits of DNA databases?

Ans:- following of the benefits of DNA databases.
DNA database would help to stop them in their tracks thereby saving everyone a huge amount of expense and misery. They are use for a legal proof. identify criminal place A Laboratory creates a profile of specific agreed upon genetic segment of the DNA molecule for a specific individual and store that information in a datdbase.

2. What problems do Dna databases pose?


people may be suspected as criminal if any hair or bodily flaids found at criminal spot. DNA samples obtained for analysis from the collection of DNA at crime scenes and from samples taken from individuals in police custody can be held in the national DNA database Innocent people may be caught up in a criminal investigation when their DNA. Computer analys can discover the identity of a criminal by matching DNA from bloods , hair , salivo, other bodily fluids left at a crime place so It ‘s very easy to identify criminals.





3. Who should be included in a national DNA databases? Should it be limited to convicted felons? Explain your answer?


DNA database to include juveniles or people who have been accused of crime but not convicted. advocated expanding the FBI national DNA databases to include juveniles. DNA has been collected from witness or others to eliminate them from families of suspects to determine whether suspects should continue to be pursued. There are many problem for an innocent person's DNA to be at crime scene that police might choose to disregard.



4. Who shouid be able to use DNA databases?
crime happens at private or public place where many people have right to be but any single hair or bodily fluids left at a crime place may be chance Innocent people may be caught up in a criminal investigation when their DNA from a single hair or spot of saliva on a drink glass appears in a public or private place where they had every right to be.

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