Capturing the criminal image
Subtitle: from mug shot to surveillance society
By: Jonathan Finn.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780816650699; 9780816650705
Subjects: Legal photography; Criminals -- Identification
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : constructing the criminal in North America; title: Picturing the criminal : photography and criminality in the nineteenth century; title: Photographing fingerprints : data, evidence, and latent identification; title: The control of inscriptions : standardizing dna analysis; title: Potential criminality : the body in the digital archive; title: Visible criminality : data collection, border security, and public display.