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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... Wehde , launched a scathing attack on the methodology of fingerprinting in a 1924 tract entitled Finger - Prints Can Be Forged . Besides raising the issue of forgery , Beffel dismissed the " doctrine of infallibility " as " dogma ...
... Wehde and Beffel , Finger - Prints Can Be Forged , 39–58 . 31. Quoted ibid . , 60 . 32. Michael Harling , Origins of the New York State Bureau of Identification ( Albany : New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services , 1996 ) ...
... Wehde and Beffel , Finger - Prints Can Be Forged , 107–126 . 25. IAI , Proceedings ( 1927 ) , 39-43 . 26. Wehde and Beffel , Finger - Prints Can Be Forged , 78–80 ; Pat A. Wertheim , " Detection of Forged and Fabricated Latent Prints ...
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Jekylls and Hydes | 1 |
Measuring the Criminal Body | 32 |
Native Prints | 60 |
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