Suspect identities : a history of fingerprinting and criminal identification
As we rush headlong into the era of genetic identification, and as fingerprint errors are being exposed, this history uncovers the fascinating interplay of our elusive individuality, police and state power, and the quest for scientific certainty
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1 online resource (1 electronic recource (369 pages)) : illustrations
9780674010024, 9780674004559, 9780674029682, 0674010027, 0674004558, 0674029682
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Impostors and incorrigible rogues
Measuring the criminal body
Native prints
Degenerate fingerprints
Fingerprinting foreigners
From anthropometry to dactyloscopy
Bloody fingerprints and Brazen Expers
Dazzling demonstrations and easy assumptions
Identification at a distance
Digital digits
Fraud, fabrication, and false positives
The Genetic age
Epilogue: bodily identities
English