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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... standard . Over the decades following World War II , American ex- aminers transformed this situation from a historical accident into a scientific principle , insisting that the determination of how much matching detail was enough should ...
... standard provided a safe margin of error and had " worked " flawlessly for nearly a century . In 1978 the British National Conference of Fingerprint Experts had voted overwhelmingly to retain the sixteen - point standard . The opin- ion ...
... standard , that the standard was the expert judgment of the examiner , however , had disseminated quite broadly . American fingerprint examiners were in the awkward position of using numbers of points to support their identifications ...
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Jekylls and Hydes | 1 |
Measuring the Criminal Body | 32 |
Native Prints | 60 |
Copyright | |
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