The Legislative Justness of Law for DNA Database

The high technology like bio-technology requires more and more in the field of criminal procedure, especially forensic science. And DNA databases would provide the criminal justice systems with not only an efficient way of crime solving but also prevent of crime. So recently the Korean government enforced a law for collection and administration of DNA databases. As that law, the use of DNA databases in the criminal justice system would be possible to offer the investigation information to compare the specimen from the crime scene with and to identify convicted offenders and suspects for recordable offenders. Particularly, DNA databases would be operated to arrest of hard core criminals, for example murder, robbery, arson, burglary, rape that have the high repetition rate. Law for DNA databases aims to criminal investigation, crime prevention and protection of human right. The three legislative Justness of law for DNA database are very different in function. the criminal investigation fulfills a function of criminal procedure, crime prevention performs a function of the police law that should eliminate potential risk factors in society. and protection of human right deals with the constitution. especially Law for DNA databases has been embroiled in controversy from a constitutional perspective through past fifteen years. But the use of individual genetic information provided DNA databases would have potentially dangerousness to violate the human rights-the right of the self-determination of personal information. so in this article several issues are pointed out in regard to three legislative Justness of law for DNA database and their solutions are suggested. Ultimately, the normative criterions for reasonable operation of DNA database should be set up and fair operation should be regulated by that law to accomplish legislative Justness of law for DNA database.