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An Analysis of an Article on Fingerprints by Gregg Easterbrook

testing since its available and relatively inexpensive-why would we not want to make sure that the people who are in prison actual...

DNA in Terms of Reliability and Accuracy

For instance, in RFLP analysis, probabilities range from "one in tens of thousands to one in hundreds of thousands, or even a mil...

Investigation of the Green River Serial Killer Gary Ridgway

decomposed and hard to identify. Although Ridgway had always been considered one of the top five suspects in the case, County sher...

Criminal Justice System and the Effects of Technology

details. Digital enhancement of such evidence has made the retrieval and identification of even the tiniest and most illegible ev...

Identification Capabilities of DNA

and moral implications of such technology. However, overall, it is clear that using DNA as an identification tool is notably bett...

DNA Testing and Joseph Wambaugh's The Blooding

tights, underpants and shoes were in a rolled-up heap about ten or fifteen feet away.2 She was naked from the waist down, with her...

Criminal Justice and the Development of New Technology

three of the primary concerns with regard to DNA and paternity testing include the question of a "generally accepted scientific th...

Jack the Ripper and His Impact on History

mostly prostitutes - were savagely murdered and mutilated by an unknown assailant, but after November 1888, the slayings stopped a...

Processing Human Remains

and Planz (2008) explore the research question of whether or not improved processing capabilities in mitochondrial DNA and STR tha...

DNA Evidence and the Daubert Test

such evidence, "crime lab scientists from the Illinois State Police testified that lip prints are as unique to an individual as ar...

The Many Applications of Genetic Engineering

can be amplified. Copies can be made off of the original template to use in biological and medical research and other application...

The Many Applications of DNA Fingerprinting

outbreaks (Feedstuffs, 2010). An even more fascinating application of DNA fingerprinting is the use of biological material added ...

Process of Aging and DNA

the cell divides the telomeres (outer sections of DNA) are cut off; in the young cell, these sections are superfluous and their lo...

Overview of Important Global Issues

In six pages significant global issues including DNA selection of baby sex, deforestation, euthanasia, family, divorce, genetic en...

Tutorial on Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, and DNA Testing

In five pages this tutorial considers 4 newspaper articles on DNA testing and examines them from deductive and inductive reasoning...

AIDS Virus and Possible Control Through a DNA Vaccine

In five pages this paper discusses the potential of a DNA virus in controlling the spread of HIV and full blown AIDS. One source ...

Arizona, the U.S., and Privacy Issues

In five pages this paper examines the U.S. as a whole and then focuses on Arizona in a consideration of such privacy issues as pri...

Analysis and Collection of Forensic Evidence

This paper addresses common questions in the field of forensic evidence. The author covers polygraphs, fingerprints, DNA typing, ...

Case Analysis of The People of Colorado v. Michael Eugene Shrek

must be collected and processed in a carefully documented scientific manner. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is a molecular c...

DNA Database Crime Laboratory Necessity

Aspects such as hair, eye, and skin color, height, weight, bone structure are only a few example of the physical characteristics w...

Criminal Investigations and Forensic Psychology

To understand the growing importance of computers in criminal investigation consider the practically limitless applications of DNA...

Forensic Science and DNA Testing

RFLP is no smaller than a quarter, while with PCR Analysis the sample can be no bigger than a few skin cells. This seemingly insi...

Evidentiary Value and Protocol At a Crime Scene

scene log is started and this is used to record entry and exit from the site by all authorized personnel as well as to record othe...

Beyond Popular Cloning Myths

(Cullis 145). That is to say that the clone is an exact duplicate -- all the way down to the unique DNA molecules -- of the plant...

DNA Research Focus

In nine pages the controversies of DNA research is the focus of this paper that discusses the Human Genome Project, gene therapy, ...

Patau's Syndrome: Trisomy 13

of their facial expressions are indicative of the condition, although the public often looks upon them as being somewhat unusual. ...

Our Evolving Use of DNA in Criminal Justice

The ways society goes about proving guilt or innocence in criminal justice has changed dramatically since the mid-twentieth centur...

Watson’s DNA

this puzzle. While the article appears overall to be accurate, in that the author quotes reliable sources, Begley (2007) does not ...

Contemporary Evolution Theory

separate newspapers, "I dont believe there is any real contradiction between the theory of evolution and the creation of the world...

Barry Scheck's Innocent Project and DNA

of an individual in a criminal trial. Perhaps even more fascinating, however, is the use of DNA to prove the innocence of an indi...