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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... ten - print file with a single latent print because the files were ordered according to the total number of patterns on all ten fingers . An investigator with a single latent print would have no idea what patterns might be on the other ...
... ten - print systems were of little use for searching for crime - scene prints . The earliest " unidigital , " or " monodactyl " clas- sification system was published by the Belgian criminalist Eugene Stockis in 1914. That same year , at ...
... Ten - print to ten - print searches compare the complete set of prints from a suspect in custody against the database of ten - prints . The purpose of such a search is to de- termine whether the suspect is using an alias or has a ...
Contents
Jekylls and Hydes | 1 |
Measuring the Criminal Body | 32 |
Native Prints | 60 |
Copyright | |
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