Suspect identities : a history of fingerprinting and criminal identification /
"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
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2002.
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Édition: | 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. |
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.