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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... iden- tification actually emerged in the colonies rather than in England , in response to the problem of administering a vast empire with a small corps of civil servants outnumbered by hostile natives . Specifically , fingerprinting ...
... Iden- tification Bureau and the Buenos Aires General Register for the Identi- fication of Persons as the world's largest fingerprint collection . After a brief period in which fingerprinting was restricted to people convicted of crimes ...
... side of caution , and a long history of trouble- free courtroom testimony . The Americans saw latent fingerprint iden- tification as a branch of the forensic sciences . They Fraud , Fabrication , and False Positives 263.
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Jekylls and Hydes | 1 |
Measuring the Criminal Body | 32 |
Native Prints | 60 |
Copyright | |
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