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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... gerprint that was characteristic of that race . This is already being dis- cussed as a potential problem with DNA.4 A related problem arose around the vexing question of the inheri- tance of fingerprints . By 1892 Galton was convinced ...
... 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 ...
... gerprint identification . As early as 1913 the San Francisco handwrit- ing expert Theodore Kytka reported that he had discovered a method for transferring fingerprints between objects . In this way a latent fin- gerprint might be ...
Contents
Jekylls and Hydes | 1 |
Measuring the Criminal Body | 32 |
Native Prints | 60 |
Copyright | |
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