DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties
by
Sheldon Krimsky, Tania Simoncelli
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders. However, since the mid-1990s, forensic DNA databanks have in some cases expanded to include people merely arrested, regardless of whether they've been charged or convicted of a crime....