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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... immigrants from Native and African Americans , racial the- ory focused on the differences between groups of Europeans . Anglo- Saxons were viewed as the most desirable immigrants , with Spaniards ranking second . Italians , Jews , and ...
... immigrant population was highly urbanized . By wiping out the Native American population , the government had hoped to clear the interior for settlement . Many more of the immigrants than ex- pected remained in the cities , however ...
... immigrants , civil servants , military personnel , or perhaps petty criminals not sentenced to prison time . Since the Prison Bureau did not conceive of fingerprinting as a substitute for anthropometry in the realm of criminal ...
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Jekylls and Hydes | 1 |
Measuring the Criminal Body | 32 |
Native Prints | 60 |
Copyright | |
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