Suspect Identities
Subtitle: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: May 16, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780674004559
Subjects: Criminal investigation & detection; Genetics (non-medical); Police & security services; True Crime; Forensic Science; True Crime / Espionage; Social Science / Criminology; Fingerprints; Murder - General; Classification; Criminals; Identification
First sentence: In the Martin Guerre case in sixteenth-century France, made famous by Natalie Zemon Davis's book and the subsequent film, two different courts charged with determining whether the individual calling himself Martin Guerre was an impostor were faced with th
Description: "Cole excavates the forgotten and hidden history of criminal identification--from photography to exotic anthropometric systems based on measuring body parts, from fingerprinting to DNA typing."--Jacket.