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89 Tul. L. Rev. 435 (2014-2015)

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       As Though They Were Not Children:
           DNA Collection from Juveniles

                            Kevin Lapp*

I.   IN TRODUCTION  ............................................................................. 435
II. COMPULSORY DNA COLLECTION FROM JUVENILES: THE
     L AW .............................................................................................. 44 4
     A.    DNA Collection Following a Conviction .......................... 446
     B. DNA Collection from Juvenies Adjudicated
          D elinquen t .......................................................................... 450
     C     DNA Collection atArrest .................................................. 458
     D     DNA Collection Based on Consent .................................. 462
     E.    Juvenile DNA Collection Estimate ................................... 463
III. THE UNREASONABLENESS OF DNA COLLECTION FROM
     JU VEN ILES .................................................................................... 464
     A.    A BriefHistoly oflJuveniles and the Crminal Law ......... 466
     B.    DNA from Delinquents ...................................................... 472
     C     Juvenile A rrestees .............................................................. 478
     D     Consenting Juveniles ......................................................... 483
     E.    Juveniles Convicted in Criminal Court ............................. 488
IV   C ONCLUSION   ................................................................................ 489

I.   INTRODUCTION
     Law enforcement craves data. From rap sheets to confidential
informants to the CompStat revolution,' law enforcement acquires

    *    © 2014 Kevin Lapp. Associate Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, Los
Angeles. Many helped to shape this piece. Thank you especially to the members of the
Subterranean Scholars Workshop and Jason Cade, Alexandra Natapoff, Marcy Strauss, Eric
Miller, JoJo Liu, Samantha Buckingham, and Jennifer Mnookin for their insightful
comments.
    1.   See ALEXANDRA NATAPOFF, SNITCHING: CRIMINAL INFORMANTS AND THE
EROSION OF AMERIcAN JUSTICE (2009) (exploring the widespread and unregulated practice of
police using informants to acquire information); James Jacobs & Tamara Crepet, The
Expanding Scope, Use, and Availability of Criminal Records, 11 N.YU. J. LEGIS. & PUB.
POL'Y 177 (2008) (describing the expanding scope of criminal records and their proliferating
dissemination); James J. Willis et al., Making Sense of COMPSTAT A Theory-Based
Analysis of Organizational Change in Three Police Departmenms, 41 LAw & SOCY REv. 147
(2007); Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dep't of Justice, Survey of State Cinmmal History
Information Systems, 2008, NAT'L CRIM. JUST. REFERENCE SERVICE 3 (Oct. 2009), https://

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