The Use of DNA Profiling and Behavioural Science in the Investigation of Sexual Offences
@article{Daves1991TheUO,
title={The Use of DNA Profiling and Behavioural Science in the Investigation of Sexual Offences},
author={Anne Aimola Daves},
journal={Medicine, Science and the Law},
year={1991},
volume={31},
pages={101 - 95},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145618908}
}The Metropolitan Police Forensic Science Laboratory has been using DNA profiling in crime cases since 1987 and has established an index of results from personal samples, together with those from stains from serious unsolved cases, which is used to identify linked cases in the absence of DNA.
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