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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... method of classification . " Galton himself conceded that Bertillon had developed a better method for in- dexing a large collection of criminal identification cards , and he ad- vised the Committee to stick with anthropometry . The ...
... method in terms of time , personnel , and necessary training . In 1907 a French Academy of Sciences survey found the world fairly evenly divided between the two identification methods . Dactyloscopy had taken root mostly in the British ...
... method still leaves defendants vulnerable to unconscious bias or delib- erate malfeasance by the police . Although Ashbaugh was extremely critical of the old methods in general and the point - counting philosophy in particular , he was ...
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Jekylls and Hydes | 1 |
Measuring the Criminal Body | 32 |
Native Prints | 60 |
Copyright | |
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