Suspect identities : a history of fingerprinting and criminal identification / Simon A. Cole.
- Cole, Simon A., 1967-
- Date:
- 2001
- Books
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Description
"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"--dust jacket.
Publication/Creation
Cambridge, MA ; London : Harvard University Press, 2001.
Physical description
369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Impostors and incorrigible rogues -- Measuring the criminal body -- Native prints -- Degenerate fingerprints -- Fingerprinting foreigners -- From anthropometry to dactyloscopy -- Bloody fingerprints and Brazen Expers -- Dazzling demonstrations and easy assumptions -- Identification at a distance -- Digital digits -- Fraud, fabrication, and false positives -- The Genetic age -- Epilogue: bodily identities.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineZEG /COLOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 0674004558
- 9780674004559