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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

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Cole, Simon A., 1967- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
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.