Fingerprint

else on the planet (Barnes, 2012). The ridge patterns on the last joint of each person fingers, known as fingerprints grants each person the opportunity to be unique. Fingerprints have become a common means of identification around the world. Despite the popularity of fingerprint, there are a very few common misconceptions of about fingerprints, one being that every person is born with fingerprints. There are rare instants where people are simply born without these identification marks on the palms

committed a criminal act, the most positive means is through fingerprints. When we are born, our fingerprints stay with us until we die and our bodies start decomposing. To the human eye our fingerprints look the same, however, further investigation will show that each of us have a unique set of friction ridges that comprise our fingerprints and sets our identity apart from each other. At a crime scene, there are two different types of fingerprints that may be found. Patent prints are visible to the

The excitement of watching a beautiful well-dressed medical examiner or forensic examiner in stiletto heels hovering over a homicide victim is quite thrilling for television. However, in the reality solving homicides is not as one would see on their favorite police show. As mention previous, the intrigue with police shows on television make it difficult to found a jury that have not seen those type show. Therefore, the court system has a problem obtaining a guilty verdict because jurors wrongfully

History of Identification and Analysis Fingerprints have been used as a means of identification around the world for as early as 300 B.C. in China, 702 A.D. in Japan and introduced in the United States in around 1902 (Fingerprint sourcebook). A document called the “The Volume of Crime Investigation-Burglary,” describing the use of handprints as evidence originated in China. Back then, fingerprints were also used to seal documents and assign authorship (fingerprint sourcebook). While Sir William James

identifiers which are Physiological characteristics that consists of fingerprint, face recognition, DNA, palm print, hand geometry, iris recognition, odor/scent, etc. and Behavioral characteristics which consists for voice recognition, gait recognition, etc. In recent years, it has become more and more popular for biometrics to be used as an authentication tool (e.g. mobile phone passwords using fingerprint scan, room entries using fingerprint or iris scan, etc.) because it is believed to be more reliable

However, the chapters of this book are designed to specify accurate information in favor of Forensic Science and it’s different aspects. The chapter 6, I have chosen can be supportive to my research question. ‘How does classification system of fingerprint identification work?’ James E. Girard, the chief author of the book, has a lot experience in Chemistry and Forensic Science. He is chairperson of chemistry department at American University, Washington, DC. In addition, he has done PhD in the field

seeing things you don’t want to see and dealing with blood in order to collect evidence that may seem small at the time, but will ultimately (possibly) be a big deal in solving the case. For over a century fingerprints have been one of the most used tools of forensic science. Fingerprints have been used to identify criminals of small crimes

of those tangible particles such as hairs, fibers, fingerprints and biological material (blood, semen or saliva). It is stated in context of the “Locard’s Exchange Principle”, whenever a person enters into a room, they will always leave a trace of evidence. Physical evidence is subjective to being the only way to reliably place or link someone(s) to the crime scene. The main provision in all cases is the avoidance of including fingerprints to evidence, or of ruining the ones already existing

unique sequence of bases in their DNA. With humans DNA being unique just like our fingerprints it can be used to identification of people. This is where the term “DNA fingerprinting” or also “genetic profiling” comes from. DNA fingerprinting just like normal fingerprints can be used to help identify suspects in crimes. The technique is used by forensic scientists.

samples to getting the fingerprints and even doing autopsies.Forensics are used to find why