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National Survey of DNA Crime Laboratories, 2001

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Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Summary: This study contains data from a survey of publicly operated forensic crime labs that perform deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing. The survey was a follow-up to the initial survey of DNA crime labs in 1998 (ICPSR study 2879). The survey included questions about each lab's budget, personnel, procedures, equipment, and workloads in terms of known subject cases, unknown subject cases, and convicted offender DNA samples. The survey was sent to 135 forensic laboratories, and 124 responses ... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03550.v1

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