The Science of fingerprints
Subtitle: classification and uses
By: United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Contributors: National Crime Information Center
Edition: Rev. 12-84.
Published: 1990
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781780390345
Subjects: Fingerprints; Identification
Other titles: Science of finger prints
Table of contents: title: I. The Identification Division of the FBI; title: II. Types of patterns and their interpretations; title: III. Questionable patterns; title: IV. The classification formula and extensions; title: V. Classification of scarred patterns- amputations- missing at birth; title: VI. Filing sequence; title: VII. Searching and referencing; title: VIII. The National Crime Information Center Fingerprint Classification System; title: IX. Techniques for taking good fingerprints; title: X. Problems in the taking of inked fingerprints; title: XI. Problems and practices in fingerprinting the dead; title: XII. Establishment of a local Fingerprint Identification Bureau; title: XIII. Latent impressions; title: XIV. Powdering and lifting latent impressions; title: XV. Chemical development of latent impressions; title: XVI. The use of the fingerprint camera; title: XVII. Preparation of fingerprint charts for court testimony; title: XVIII. Unidentified latent fingerprint file; title: XIX. Proper procedures for taking major case prints.