Suspect Identities“No two fingerprints are alike,” or so it goes. For nearly a hundred years fingerprints have represented definitive proof of individual identity in our society. We trust them to tell us who committed a crime, whether a criminal record exists, and how to resolve questions of disputed identity. |
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... fin- gerprints were completely different , thus conclusively demonstrating the greater individualizing resolution of fingerprinting — its ability to discern difference where Bertillonage and photography saw none . The warden , R. W. ...
... fin- gerprint systems . During the 1970s the FBI scanned all the records of persons born after January 1 , 1929 , from its Criminal Master Finger- print File . By 1980 it had scanned a total of 14.3 million cards into its computerized ...
... fin- gerprint might be " lifted " from an object that someone had touched innocently and planted on an incriminating object . In 1920 another handwriting expert , Milton Carlson , claimed to have transferred a fin- gerprint from a ...
Contents
Jekylls and Hydes | 1 |
Measuring the Criminal Body | 32 |
Native Prints | 60 |
Copyright | |
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