William Herschel
Fingerprint collection began in 1856 by
Sir Francis Galton
Who verfied that fingerprints do not change with age
False
t/f laten fingerprints, are caused by the transfer of skin onto a surface
plain and tented
Fingerprint arches may be
fingerprint as forensic evidence
pudd'nhead wilson lawyer mark twajn 1894
true
patent fingerprints, or visible fingerprints are left on smooth surace when blood ink or somone other liquid comes in contact with the hands and ks transfereed to the surface
true
contrary yo what we see on tv fingerprint matching is not carried out by a computer in a matter of seconds
alphonse bertillon
The system was first used in 1833 to indentfiy a repeating offender his name is
true
plastic fingerprints arw acutal indentation left in some soft material such as clay putty or wax
plain arches
fingerprits arches may be
false
latent fingerprints or surface fingerprints are caused by the transfer of skin onto a surface
plain,central pocket,double loop all of the above
fingerprint whorl patterns may be a
The US and Europe
In 1888, sir francis Galton along w sir E R henry developed the classification system for fingerprints that is still in use today in
10th
during which week of geststation are fingerprints formed
in the friction ridge if the skin
the imprint of a fingerprint consists of natural secreation of the sweat glands that are present
minutiae
while looking at the basic fingerprint patterns can quickly help elminate a suspect in order to postively match a print found at a crime scene to an indvidual' more is needed. Every individual including twins have a unique fingerprint due to unique ridge
20-30
what percent of latent prints At a crime scene come from the palm or sides of the hand
arch,whorl, loop all if the above
beginning in 1896 sir edmund richard henry with the help of two colleagues created a system that divided fingerprint records into groups based on wheter they have
1684
in western culture the earliest record of the study of the patterns of huma hands cones from
ulnar
which type of loop open towards the little fingwr
false
t/f As soon as fingerprints were discovered to be reliable means of identificIation, criminals began to devise ways to alter being identified. American public enemy numbet one in 1930s john dillinger burned his fingerprints with a torch to change their ap