Issues in DNA Fingerprinting

Abstract

The use, in court, of DNA Profiling, popularly referred to as DNA fingerprinting, for forensic identification purposes has been questioned. A report of the National Research Council was solicited to clarify the issues and propose procedures of how and where this powerful technique could be used. This report has been subject to criticism. The main point of the report was to recommend procedures for the primary issue of quality control and for gathering useful data. The report also proposed the ceiling principle as a conservative approach for calculating the match probability for an innocent suspect to be used in assessing the guilt of a suspect. That method has been criticized by some as not necessarily conservative, and by others as unnecessarily conservative as well as illogical. These issues are discussed as well as some of the recent history in court.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA284769

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  • Herman Chernoff

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  • Harvard University

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  • Energy and Power Technologies

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