Citation

Palmbach TM, Blom J, Hoynes E, Primorac D, Gaboury M. Croat. Med. J. 2014; 55(1): 3-9.

Affiliation

Timothy M. Palmbach, University of New Haven, Forensic Science Department, 300 Boston Post Rd., West Haven, CT, USA, tpalmbach@newhaven.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, University of Zagreb Medical School, Publisher Medicinska Naklada)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

24577820

PMCID

PMC3944412

Abstract

A study was conducted to determine if modern forensic DNA typing methods can be properly employed throughout the world with a final goal of increasing arrests, prosecutions, and convictions of perpetrators of modern day trafficking in persons while concurrently reducing the burden of victim testimony in legal proceedings. Without interruption of investigations, collection of samples containing DNA was conducted in a variety of settings. Evidentiary samples were analyzed on the ANDE Rapid DNA system. Many of the collected swabs yielded informative short tandem repeat profiles with Rapid DNA technology.

Keywords: Human trafficking

Language: en