TIKRIT UNIVERSITY JOURNAL FOR RIGHTS

The scientific and technological development represents the most important features of modernity in the current era, and on the other hand we find an evolution in the methods of committing crime, as these methods have become complex and it is almost difficult to discover crimes or know the perpetrator, because some of the criminals began to use methods that are characterized by accuracy and through which they can Obliterating the features of the crime, making it difficult to access it, and thus obstructing the law’s mission in protecting the private interests of society and achieving stability for it, so it was imperative to use means commensurate with the development in the commission of crimes and their complexity and magnitude, hence the role of using modern scientific evidence in uncovering crimes And prove the link between the crime and its perpetrator through the scientific development in genetics, As the genetic fingerprint (DNA) has been relied on in many countries to detect the perpetrators, identify the perpetrator, and differentiate between people through laboratory analysis of the DNA of the sample that is found at the crime scene and comparing it with the sample taken from the suspect’s body for the purpose of criminal proof.