5.6 DNA Databank: Concept and Application

The concept: the profiles' repository — the convicted's, the suspects', the crime-scenes', the missing-and-unidentified's (the categories' legal definition). The applications: the crime-scene- to-person links (the cold cases' resolution); the crime-scene-to-crime-scene (the serial offences' pattern); the missing persons' identifications; the disaster-victim identifications. The law-and- ethics debates: the retention's justification (the innocence's profiles — the deletion questions); the familial searching (the relatives' privacy); the governance (the access, the security, the oversight); the Nepal position (the databank's legislative-and-institutional development — the pending-and-emerging faces; the existing labs' databases' practice).