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



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Autore: Cole Simon A. <1967-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Suspect identities : a history of fingerprinting and criminal identification / / Simon A. Cole Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2001
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p. ) : ill
Disciplina: 363.258
Soggetto topico: Fingerprints
Criminals
Note generali: Originally published: 2001.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE Jekylls and Hydes -- CHAPTER 1 Impostors and Incorrigible Rogues -- CHAPTER 2 Measuring the Criminal Body -- CHAPTER 3 Native Prints -- CHAPTER 4 Degenerate Fingerprints -- CHAPTER 5 Fingerprinting Foreigners -- CHAPTER 6 From Anthropometry to Dactyloscopy -- CHAPTER 7 Bloody Fingerprints and Brazen Experts -- CHAPTER 8 Dazzling Demonstrations and Easy Assumptions -- CHAPTER 9 Identification at a Distance -- CHAPTER 10 Digital Digits -- CHAPTER 11 Fraud, Fabrication, and False Positives -- CHAPTER 12 The Genetic Age -- EPILOGUE Bodily Identities -- NOTES -- Credits -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: As we rush headlong into the era of genetic identification, and as fingerprint errors are being exposed, this history uncovers the fascinating interplay of our elusive individuality, police and state power, and the quest for scientific certainty.
Titolo autorizzato: Suspect identities  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-02968-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813864903321
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