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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... Racial theory survived , but with a twist . Instead of distinguishing European immigrants from Native and African Americans , racial the- ory focused on the differences between groups of Europeans . Anglo- Saxons were viewed as the most ...
... racial clas- sification . An anthropometric identification system , in contrast , by ex- posing the existence of mulattos and other racial " hybrids " and forcing identification officials to name and recognize intraracial physiognomic ...
... racial and ethnic backgrounds were more likely to share alleles than people of different backgrounds . The earliest ... racial populations and , therefore , might be used as racial markers . DNA typing , perhaps , did not individualize ...
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Jekylls and Hydes | 1 |
Measuring the Criminal Body | 32 |
Native Prints | 60 |
Copyright | |
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