Collecting DNA Evidence at Property Crime Scenes¶
National Institute of Justice. (2023). Collecting DNA Evidence at Property Crime Scenes: Chain of Custody. U.S. Department of Justice.
Cited by¶
1 citation across 1 artifact.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Mechanisms¶
- Chain-of-Custody Record
- Its strength is that it converts "is this the same item?" into a checkable record: an unbroken, signed, sealed trail authenticates the artifact by the impossibility of an undocumented swap.
This sourceRequires a documented chain-of-custody record, marked and sealed packaging, and signed or securely recorded transfers for each evidence item.
- Its strength is that it converts "is this the same item?" into a checkable record: an unbroken, signed, sealed trail authenticates the artifact by the impossibility of an undocumented swap.
Verification¶
Does it exist? Not checked yet. This entry carries no identifier to resolve. It was extracted from the citation as written in the article, normalized, and deduplicated against the rest of the registry.
Does it back the claim? Not recorded. The single citation of this work carries no recorded support check.
Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.
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