Description
please read this article and complete the worksheet and answer the following questions: https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2019/…
What was the Total CRAAP Score that you calculated for the article?
Which category received your highest numerical score? [Enter one of the following words only: Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose, or Multiple (if more than one category received the same score).
Which category received your lowest numerical score? [Enter one of the following words only: Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose, or Multiple (if more than one category received the same score).
Joseph DeAngelo was identified as a suspect in multiple cases of rape and murder when law enforcement compared DNA from a crime scene with genetic sequences uploaded to an online database used by private individuals searching for genetic relatives. What was the name of the online genealogy service that they used?
Group of answer choices
GEDmatch
23andMe
ancestry.com
Ysearch.org
Who had uploaded their genetic data to the online database to which the crime scene DNA was matched thereby implicating DeAngelo?
Group of answer choices
DeAngelo himself
DeAngelo’s twin brother
DeAngelo’s mother
a distant cousin of DeAngelo
At the time that the article was published, was it legal for law enforcement to use genetic data from home DNA kits to identify criminals in California?
Group of answer choices
No, due to the overrepresentation of people of color in law enforcement DNA databases that would amplify police suspicion of minority communities
Yes, there were no restrictions to the use of home DNA tests in law enforcement in California
Yes, but only when all other investigative leads had been exhausted
Now that you have carefully read and evaluated the article using a CRAAP test, I want you to draw a conclusion about what you read about “familial searches” in forensics. If you were in politics and were given the responsibility of deciding whether or not police should be allowed to use home DNA tests to find suspects of crimes, how would you vote and why?
View keyboard shortcuts
EditViewInsertFormatToolsTable
12ptParagraph
