James F. Cowger

Friction Ridge Skin (eBook, PDF)

Comparison and Identification of Fingerprints

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Here is a complete guide to the collection, classification, and comparison of friction skin prints and the determination of identity and nonidentity. It discusses: the cause and significance of variations in prints; the importance of class characteristics in print; the application of probability in decision making; and photographic techniques and considerations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000108637
• Artikelnr.: 59880989

Autorenporträt

James F. Cowger

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Taking Inked Prints
Prints of the Living
Other Devices and Materials for Recording Prints
Major Criminal Prints
Printing Problem Subjects
Printing the Deceased
3 Classification
Fingerprints
Palm Prints
Sole Prints
4 The Evidence Print
The Latent Print
The Visible Print
The Plastic Impression
Locating, Developing, Preserving, and Collecting Evidence Prints
Determining the Age of an Evidence Print
5 Photography of Prints and Impressions
The Camera
Film
Use of Colored Filters
Lighting
6 The Basis of the Comparison
Class Characteristics
Individual Characteristics
Determining Identity
7 Comparing Prints
Orienting the Evidence Print
Locating Minutiae
Tonally Reversed Prints
Laterally Reversed Prints
Distortion
Overlain Prints
8 Some Comparisons of Evidence Prints
9 Reporting and Testifying to Conclusions
References
Index.