CorrespondenceA response to Meakin and Jamieson DNA transfer: Review and implications for casework
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Increasing the accessibility and impact of justice-related student and practitioner research
2020, Forensic Science International: SynergyCitation Excerpt :As a result, useful and potentially valuable forensic, and other justice-related, research of interest to researchers and practitioners remains inaccessible [2]. Equally, there is evidence that research carried out by practitioners often goes unpublished and is therefore inaccessible to prosecution and defence [3]. This study was a small-scale piece of commissioned mixed-methods research conducted in the UK.
On DNA transfer: The lack and difficulty of systematic research and how to do it better
2019, Forensic Science International: GeneticsCitation Excerpt :We therefore would argue that analogous guidelines or consensus criteria for conducting and reporting DNA transfer research would greatly benefit the field and might even be adopted by forensic journals as a sine qua non for publication as is already in place for population data [127]. Questions of whether and how DNA transfer probabilities should be evaluated by forensic experts have long been and are currently discussed in the forensic community [2,105,128–130]. We will not join this discussion by setting up a new framework for evaluation but instead intend to point out in the following examples how categorization of DNA transfer studies in a commonly accessible database and improving standards in performing and reviewing DNA transfer research according to the abovementioned guidelines will be profitable for the evaluation of the probability of a trace given competing hypotheses for its origination.
DNA transfer in forensic science: A review
2019, Forensic Science International: GeneticsCitation Excerpt :See Taylor et al. [2] for more information on the use of Bayesian networks, and evaluation of forensic genetics findings given activity level propositions in general. As noted by others [40,41,44,46,144,145,298], activity level questions concerning DNA need to be addressed. Forensic scientists with expertise in DNA-TPPR are therefore in a responsible position to provide guidance on the probabilities of specific evidence given specific scenarios using the information that is available at the time.
Conceptualising forensic science and forensic reconstruction. Part I: A conceptual model
2017, Science and JusticeCitation Excerpt :Given that every case is different and therefore effective forensic reconstruction requires sensitivity to the context of each case, there is a need to consider the best way of developing problem-solving reconstruction approaches that incorporate both empirical evidence bases and expertise. This is an issue related to, but outside of, the current debates addressing the role of experience and empirical evidence [37–40], yet it is a critical issue. It is highly important that trace evidence is interpreted and presented in an empirical, balanced, transparent, reproducible way that at the same time has the capacity to incorporate sensitivity to specific case contexts.
Helping to distinguish primary from secondary transfer events for trace DNA
2017, Forensic Science International: GeneticsCitation Excerpt :This finding has then been interpreted by many analysts as saying that there is no evaluative information within the DNA trace, implying that, given the findings at hand, any explanation is possible. In response to this interpretation of Meakin et al., Casey et al. [16] called for the evaluation of DNA profiling results, in light of questions of activity, to be strived for regardless of the difficulties involved (see also a response to this response from the original authors in [17]). This is a sentiment to which we agree and it has been influential in our decision to write this paper.