Different stakeholders use forensic DNA databases for different purposes; for example, law
enforcement agencies use them as an investigative tool to identify suspects, and …

Large geographic areas should host a greater diversity of crime compared with small
geographic areas. This proposition is reasonable given that larger geographic areas should …

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens'
Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the LIBE Committee, provides an overview …

Abstract Forensic Science South Australia (FSSA) has been using STRmix™ software to
deconvolute all reported DNA mixtures since 2012. Almost a decade of deconvolutions had …

Since 1995, national forensic DNA databases have used a maximum number of
contributors, and a minimum number of loci to reduce the risk of providing false leads. DNA …

Criminal offenders missing from police files limit the capacity to reconstruct criminal networks
for criminological research and operational purposes. Recent studies show that forensic …

The university and the policing professional field are commonly viewed as separate worlds
that have trouble working together, each with their own objectives, values, methods, and …

Purpose–This paper aims to describe the activity of managing records related to forensic
DNA identification. First, it illustrates the fundamentals behind the technique of forensic DNA …

DNA traces found at crime scenes and DNA records held in databases have already helped
the police to solve numerous investigations into specific crimes. The police clearly benefit …

When studying offending behaviour, researchers primarily rely on police-recorded crime
data, even though such data contain only detected crimes and known offenders. Using DNA …