Fingerprints
Subtitle: dead people do tell tales
By: Chana Stiefel.
Series: True forensic crime stories
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley Heights, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780766036895
Subjects: Fingerprints -- Juvenile literature; Criminal investigation -- Juvenile literature; Forensic sciences -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature
Description: "Uses true crime stories to explain the science of forensics and fingerprint evidence"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The wild will west story : what are fingerprints and what makes them unique?; title: On the record : how fingerprints became instant I.D; title: The hunt : how do experts locate and lift prints?; title: You can run, but you can't hide : how fingerprints catch up with criminals; title: Fudging fingerprints : how criminals go to extremes to hide their prints; title: Fingerprint flaws : when innocent people are sent to jail; title: Instant I.D. : the future of fingerprinting; title: Afterword: the system at work.