DNA and Biological Evidence Outline<\/p>\n
Students Name<\/p>\n
Institution Affiliation<\/p>\n
Course Number and Name<\/p>\n
Instructor Name<\/p>\n
Due Date<\/p>\n
Research Question:<\/p>\n
Should DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) and Other Biological Evidence Be Admissible in Court?<\/p>\n
Introduction <\/p>\n
Prevalence of innocent people put in prison <\/p>\n
Number of people proven innocent by DNA and other biological evidences after imprisonment <\/p>\n
Ethical question of admissibility of DNA evidence in courts<\/p>\n
Thesis statement \u2013 While DNA has been used to exonerate innocent people, many still hold that it should not be admissible in court because the quality of evidence relies on the quality of the laboratory work, evidence may be planted, and it might lead to false conclusions. This paper therefore, discusses these possible situations where DNA can be used and how this makes DNA use a risky manner of proving someone guilty or not. <\/p>\n
Scope of the problem <\/p>\n
Statistics of the people wrongfully incarcerated <\/p>\n
Statistics of the number of people put in death row due to erroneous DNA testing and planted evidence <\/p>\n
Statistics on rightful convictions using DNA and biological evidence <\/p>\n
Success of DNA and biological evidence in solving civil and criminal cases<\/p>\n
Paternity cases <\/p>\n
Proof of death <\/p>\n
Sexual Assaults<\/p>\n
Ethical issues in DNA and biological evidence in criminal cases <\/p>\n
Basic human error and human bias <\/p>\n
Linking innocent people to crime <\/p>\n
Surge in racial disparities <\/p>\n
Violation of privacy rights <\/p>\n
Study #1 (Campbell et al, 2020).<\/p>\n
Can DNA be used to identify repeat offenders in sexual assaults?<\/p>\n
Forensic DNA testing results examined from 7,287 samples in Michigan <\/p>\n
35.7% identified as repeat perpetrators <\/p>\n
Study #2 (Akmal et al, 2020).<\/p>\n
Does forensic science aid the process of decision making in courts?<\/p>\n
How has DNA evidence been used to solve forensic cases such as paternity and relatedness <\/p>\n
Are there errors in solving forensic cases using manual calculations? <\/p>\n
Does ForeStatistics increase the accurateness and efficiency of DNA statistics?<\/p>\n
Study #3 (Schklar, 2019).<\/p>\n
Do DNA and other scientific evidence play an increasing role in criminal investigations and court proceedings?<\/p>\n
Baye\u2019s theorem in estimating the degree to which jurors should revise their belief that the defendant committed the crime given some incriminating trace evidence such as hair fibre, semen and blood<\/p>\n
Should jurors consider trustworthiness of police officers conducting criminal investigations and collecting DNA evidence from the crime scene?<\/p>\n
Conclusion <\/p>\n
Summary statement of DNA and biological evidence and impact on society <\/p>\n
Thesis statement \u2013 While DNA has been used to exonerate innocent people, many still hold that it should not be admissible in court because the quality of evidence relies on the quality of the laboratory work, evidence may be planted, and it might lead to false conclusions. This paper therefore, discusses these possible situations where DNA can be used and how this makes DNA use a risky manner of proving someone guilty or not. <\/p>\n
Future implications<\/p>\n
Educate people on importance of DNA and biological evidence <\/p>\n
Conduct more studies on reliability of DNA and biological evidence to allow admissibility in courts. <\/p>\n
References<\/p>\n
Akmal, M. A., Hussain, W., Rasool, N., Khan, Y. D., Khan, S. A., & Chou, K. C. (2020). Using Chou’s 5-steps rule to predict O-linked serine glycosylation sites by blending position relative features and statistical moment. IEEE\/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics.<\/p>\n
Campbell, M., McKenzie, J. E., Sowden, A., Katikireddi, S. V., Brennan, S. E., Ellis, S., … & Thomson, H. (2020). Synthesis without meta-analysis (SWiM) in systematic reviews: reporting guideline. bmj, 368.<\/p>\n
Schklar, J. (2019). DNA Evidence in the courtroom: A social-psychological perspective. In Science in Court (pp. 110-124). Routledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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