Suspect Identities : : A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification /

Suspect Identities : : A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification / / Simon A. Cole.

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"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 identi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Cole, Simon A.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©2001
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (381 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PROLOGUE Jekylls and Hydes
  • CHAPTER 1 Impostors and Incorrigible Rogues
  • CHAPTER 2 Measuring the Criminal Body
  • CHAPTER 3 Native Prints
  • CHAPTER 4 Degenerate Fingerprints
  • CHAPTER 5 Fingerprinting Foreigners
  • CHAPTER 6 From Anthropometry to Dactyloscopy
  • CHAPTER 7 Bloody Fingerprints and Brazen Experts
  • CHAPTER 8 Dazzling Demonstrations and Easy Assumptions
  • CHAPTER 9 Identification at a Distance
  • CHAPTER 10 Digital Digits
  • CHAPTER 11 Fraud, Fabrication, and False Positives
  • CHAPTER 12 The Genetic Age
  • EPILOGUE Bodily Identities
  • NOTES
  • Credits
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Index

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