James F Cowger

Friction Ridge Skin

Comparison and Identification of Fingerprints

• Gebundenes Buch

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 153mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780849395024
• ISBN-10: 084939502X
• Artikelnr.: 22428301

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.