Friction Ridge Skin

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. 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.