Challenges to fingerprints
By: Lyn Haber, Ralph Haber.
Contributors: Haber, Ralph Norman.
Publisher: Lawyers & Judges Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tucson, AZ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781933264158
Subjects: Fingerprints; Evidence, Criminal -- United States
Description: From the Publisher: This book, perhaps the first of its kind, teaches you about fingerprints: what they are, their use in criminal investigation, techniques used for comparison, training and certification of experts, accuracy and error rates of fingerprint comparisons, and court challenges to fingerprint evidence. If you are a trial attorney or an investigator and must work with fingerprint data, this book teaches you the pitfalls of fingerprint evidence and the challenges and problems that might occur in a court of law when fingerprint data is presented.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to fingerprints; title: Individualization : fingerprint comparison isn't like finding your wife in a crowd; title: Fingers and toes; title: Where are the fingerprints? : crime scene and laboratory processing of latent fingerprints; title: That's your fingerprint! : the ACE comparison method; title: Automated fingerprint search (AFIS); title: How good is Stella LaVie? : proficiency and certification testing of fingerprint examiners; title: That's your fingerprint (only it isn't)! : error rates of fingerprint comparisons; title: Contamination in the crime laboratory; title: Standards governing the qualifications of fingerprint examiners and crime laboratories; title: Challenges to claims by the fingerprint profession about fingerprint comparison accuracy; title: Challenges to fingerprints.