Testing Justice: The Rape Kit Backlog in Los Angeles City and County
- ISBN-10
- 1564324613
- ISBN-13
- 9781564324610
- Category
- DNA fingerprinting
- Pages
- 68
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Human Rights Watch
Description
And recommendations -- Sexual violence in Los Angeles County -- Untested rape kits in crime laboratories -- Untested rape kits in police storage -- Human rights law and responses to sexual violence -- Conclusions.
Get the book
Similar books
-
DNA Analysis of Shore Plovers
By David M. Lambert, Hilary C. Miller, Ian L. AndersonDNA Analysis of Shore Plovers
-
DNA: A Practical Guide
By David Rose, Lisa Marie GoosDNA: A Practical Guide
-
DNA and the Hunt for Britain's Most Evil Criminals
By Ron MackennaThis is the story of how those breakthroughs changed the face of the world. It is the story of DNA and the race to bring down some of Britain's most evil criminals.
-
At Risk
By Patricia CornwellA 'one-off' from the acclaimed creator of the Kay Scarpetta series, based on the New York Times serialisation.
-
ABA Standards for Criminal Justice: DNA Evidence
By American Bar Association. Criminal Justice Standards CommitteeBackground of the Standards In April 2000, the Criminal Justice Council of the American Bar Association passed the following resolution: The Criminal Justice Section recognizes the need for national standards pertaining to the ...
-
DNA Fingerprinting
By Christopher LamptonExamines the procedures and uses of DNA fingerprinting as a method of identification in forensic science.
-
A Guide to Forensic DNA Profiling
By Scott Bader, Allan JamiesonThe increasingly arcane world of DNA profiling demands that those needing to understand at least some of it must find a source of reliable and understandable information.
-
LOST FAMILY: How Dna Testing is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending who We are
By LIBBY. COPELANDShe explores the culture of genealogy buffs, the science of DNA, and the business of companies like Ancestry and 23andMe, all while tracing the story of one woman, her unusual results, and a relentless methodical drive for answers that ...
-
The Blooding
By Joseph WambaughChronicles the first homicide cases to be solved by DNA testing: the 1983 and 1986 rape-murders of English teenagers Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashforth.
-
Pointing from the Grave: A True Story of Murder and DNA
By Samantha WeinbergIn 1984 a young British DNA scientist was sexually assaulted in her San Francisco cottage.