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Can Crime Be Genetic?

Can Crime Be Genetic?

By Stefanie Jones


Anyone reading The Washington Post last Sunday would be forgiven for thinking that the world – or at least the legal system – has finally gone mad. The newspaper reported that a growing number of legal defence teams across the US are using DNA profiles to get their clients off the hook.

Now I don’t know about you, but to me the “he couldn’t help it, being a murderer is in his genes” argument jus