Forensic science IT applicationsin North or south America

(not U.S.A. and Canada)

Nattapol Moonviriyakit

Brazil

• South America.• Capital is Brasilia• Fifth largest country

in the world.

BRAZIL

• Officially the Federative Republic of Brazil .• Population amount 191,247,714.• The Federation is formed by the union of the

Federal District, the 26 states.• Political and economic leader in Latin

America.• World's tenth largest economy.

Information Technology in Brazil

Strengths• The federal government has come a long way

to introduce and encourage usage of Information Technology.

• There are many great universities.

Weaknesses• There are many pressing social issues.• The nation has also underwent many political

changes.

Forensic Science in Brazil

• A legacy of the police state that prevailed from 1964 to 1985.

• controlled by police chiefs.

• some politicians are still suspicious of the idea of setting forensic experts free from police control.

What is Forensic IT applications?

Evidence collection and preservation Storing Data

Evidence Analysis Processing Data

Report writing Communication Technology

Forensic IT applications in Brazil

Kidnapping in Central Brazil

• Worldwide problem.• 10-15% of the victim

are never recover.

Forensic IT applications in Brazil

Forensic Science in Brazil (1979 – 2002)• 1979 a girl was kidnapped.• 1986 a male baby was abducted.• 2002 parents of 1986 missing child and

teenager boy were observed.• Mother of the girl abducted in 1979 to

question in prosecuted woman.

Forensic IT applications in Brazil

• No legal to donate biological sample for investigation.

• Collected from two cigarette tips discarded• Analysis of 19 marker.• Maternity probability in 99.999996%

Forensic IT applications in Brazil

Forensic science (2004 - present)

DNA Databank• Missing kids program called “Caminho de

Volta”.• 8,000 kids and adolescents missing in Sao

Paulo State per year.• 30,000 missing kids per year in Brazil.

Forensic IT applications in Brazil

DNA databank• Biological identification.• 15 STR markers.• Investigated 561 unrelated(410 females; 151

males).• High and very discriminating

(99.9993%).

Forensic IT applications in Brazil

Forensic IT applications in Brazil

Advantage of DNA Databank• Data was stored systematically.• Made possible identification from bone.• Families giving opportunity of children’s

come back home.• The STRs frequencies estimation from

brazilian.

Compare IT between Brazil and Thailand

• In Thailand DNA databank almost use in arrest criminal more than kidnapping.

• DNA databank in Thailand there are seperated such as university, ministry.

• Investigation for paternity testing.

References

• [1] G.J.F. Gatta´s *, C. Fridman, P.C.C. Santos, C. Figaro-Garcia, P. Kohler, L.F. Lopez, E. Massad : Genetic profile from the DNA databank of a Brazilian missing kids program, Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series 1 (2008) 465–466

• [2] R.S.S. Barcelos a,b,c, N.M.O. Godinho a,b, G.L. Ribeiro a, C. Mendes d, K.A.A. Paula d, F. Marinho-Neto b, S.F. Oliveira a, Infants kidnapping in Central Brazil solved by genetic analysis, Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series 1 (2008) 401–402

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil• http://www.scidev.net/en/science-and-innovation-

policy/science-networks/features/brazils-forensic-science-back-from-the-dead.html

• http://www.shef.ac.uk/pr/press_releases/pr02/20nov02.html

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