ENVIRONMENTAL DNA –eDNA
Keywords:
crime against the environment, criminal procedure, detection and proving, harvesting samples, environmental DNAAbstract
Healthy environment and preserved environment is the prerequisite for future development and basic survival of todays and future generations. The role of criminal law in the matter of realization of a right to healthy environment is the ultimate defense mechanism, as well as a mechanism flexible to recognize and adjust to societal changes, with a need to identify and sanction different illegal behavior. Societal changes, ongoing struggle between the interest of the capital against individual interests, economic prosperity, they all led to a new range of illegal behavior and criminal acts against an environment require more attention from public. As a group of specific criminal acts, a new issue occurred regarding the detection and proving the criminal act, but we must take into account the present-day capacities regarding detection and verification of such criminal acts. A deeper analysis of comparative legislature and court cases concluded that USA has developed such act of proving – harvesting samples from the environment, purposefully adjusted to the crime against the environment. Proper use of this act of proving, adjusted to such criminal acts has given positive results. The subject of this research was finding the way in which such samples could be harvested from environment, the quality of the results obtained, and regarding which criminal acts would it be beneficial to utilize this modified mode of extracting e-DNA.
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