CRIM 3658 Chapter Notes - Chapter The Social and Legal Construction of Suspects: Fingerprint, Colin Pitchfork, Innocence Project
17 Apr 2017
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Dna profiling and searchable databases enhance the ability of policing organizations to search for criminal suspects. These technologies are incorporated within traditions of police work supplementing familiar subjective methods of constructing suspects. Not only is dna used to confirm that a criminal suspect is the source of crime scene. It can be used to search freely through suspect population for a possible source of such evidence. This method commonly known as database trawling comprises of new way of constructing suspects, one that bears close connections with new data mining technologies for prospectively identifying terrorist suspects. Criminal suspects individuals suspected of having committed a particular crime are the most familiar kind of suspects. Whereas a suspect population includes anyone in the world who has not yet been excluded by the criminal evidence, but usually such populations are limited to groups convicted of past offences or deemed likely to include possible offenders.
