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“Source” or “activity” What is the level of issue in a criminal trial?
Author(s) -
Jackson Graham,
Biedermann Alex
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2019.01253.x
Subject(s) - criminology , psychology , law , political science
With DNA evidence, so‐called match probabilities are potentially misleading if they are used to answer questions that they are not designed to answer. Are we interested in who is the source of the detected DNA, or are we interested in whether a particular alleged activity occurred? Graham Jackson and Alex Biedermann explore this issue.