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Suspect identities : a history of fingerprinting and criminal identification / Simon A. Cole.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.Edition: 1st Harvard University Press pbk. edDescription: 1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674029682
  • 0674029682
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Suspect identities.DDC classification:
  • 363.25/8 22
LOC classification:
  • HV6074 .C557 2002eb
Other classification:
  • 71.65
Online resources:
Contents:
Prologue: Jekylls and Hydes -- Imposters and incorrigible rogues -- Measuring the criminal body -- Native prints -- Degenerate fingerprints -- Fingerprinting foreigners -- From anthropometry to dactyloscopy -- Bloody fingerprints and brazen experts -- Dazzling demonstrations and easy assumptions -- Identification at a distance -- Digital digits -- Fraud, fabrication, and false positives -- The genetic age -- Epilogue: Bodily identities.
Summary: "Cole excavates the forgotten and hidden history of criminal identification--from photography to exotic anthropometric systems based on measuring body parts, from fingerprinting to DNA typing"--Jacket.
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Originally published: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-346) and index.

Prologue: Jekylls and Hydes -- Imposters and incorrigible rogues -- Measuring the criminal body -- Native prints -- Degenerate fingerprints -- Fingerprinting foreigners -- From anthropometry to dactyloscopy -- Bloody fingerprints and brazen experts -- Dazzling demonstrations and easy assumptions -- Identification at a distance -- Digital digits -- Fraud, fabrication, and false positives -- The genetic age -- Epilogue: Bodily identities.

Print version record.

"Cole excavates the forgotten and hidden history of criminal identification--from photography to exotic anthropometric systems based on measuring body parts, from fingerprinting to DNA typing"--Jacket.

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