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The detection of fingerprints is probably the best known tool of the criminal investigator. In the last 100 years they have become the main method of identifying criminals.
Even identical twins do not have the same fingerprints. Fingerprints can therefore assist a detective to work out who has been at the scene of a crime. Follow these links to find out more about fingerprinting;
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Richard Saferstein, Fingerprints in Criminalistics: An Introduction to Forensic Science (6th Edition), Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1998, pp 437-465. |
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Keith Barnett, Marks and Impressions in Peter White (Editor), Crime Scene to Court, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 1998, pp 73-104. |
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Colin Evans, Fingerprinting in The Casebook of Forensic Detection, Wiley, Chichester, 1996, pp 90-121. |
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E. Roland Menzel, Fingerprint Detection with Lasers (2nd Edition), Marcel Dekker, New York, NY, 1999. |
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Copyright © 2000-2005 Deakin University, Comments to Author: Associate Professor Simon W. Lewis Revised: June 13, 2005 |
