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Fingerprinting
What is it?
A fingerprint is an impression of the ridges on a person’s finger. By inking a person’s finger, these can be recorded on paper and compared with fingerprints left at the crime scene. Since no two fingerprints are the same, this is a valuable way of identifying a person. Fingerprints are formed in full detail before birth and remain unchanged throughout life unless they are affected by a deep seated injury.
It was in 1860 that the use of fingerprints as a reliable means of individual identification really started.
In 1897 a Fingerprint bureau was opened in Britishrun Calcutta. Haque and Bose were Indian fingerprint experts. These two men set up the way of using fingerprints that was eventually named the “Henry System”.
Fingerprints are formed in full detail before birth and remain unchanged throughout life unless they are affected by a deep seated injury. A method of classifying fingerprints and research in this field was initiated by Sir Francis Galton and Henry Faulds independently at the end of the 19th century. In 1900 a committee was appointed by the Home Secretary to enquire into methods of the 'Identification of Criminals by Measurement and Fingerprints'.
What changed?
This proposed a method of fingerprint classification and comparison to replace the inaccurate Bertillon anthropometric measurement system, which was then in use, which only partially relied upon fingerprints for identification. It was an improvement because fingerprinting helped to the solving of more crimes compared to the Bertillon system.
Examples
One of the earliest cases involving the use of fingerprint evidence was in 1905, when a thumb print, left on a cash box at the scene of a murder in Deptford of shopkeepers Mr. & Mrs. Farrow, was identified as belonging to Alfred Stratton, one of two brothers. As a result of this identification they were jointly charged with the crime and subsequently hanged.
Since then, fingerprint identification has
What is it?
A fingerprint is an impression of the ridges on a person’s finger. By inking a person’s finger, these can be recorded on paper and compared with fingerprints left at the crime scene. Since no two fingerprints are the same, this is a valuable way of identifying a person. Fingerprints are formed in full detail before birth and remain unchanged throughout life unless they are affected by a deep seated injury.
It was in 1860 that the use of fingerprints as a reliable means of individual identification really started.
In 1897 a Fingerprint bureau was opened in Britishrun Calcutta. Haque and Bose were Indian fingerprint experts. These two men set up the way of using fingerprints that was eventually named the “Henry System”.
Fingerprints are formed in full detail before birth and remain unchanged throughout life unless they are affected by a deep seated injury. A method of classifying fingerprints and research in this field was initiated by Sir Francis Galton and Henry Faulds independently at the end of the 19th century. In 1900 a committee was appointed by the Home Secretary to enquire into methods of the 'Identification of Criminals by Measurement and Fingerprints'.
What changed?
This proposed a method of fingerprint classification and comparison to replace the inaccurate Bertillon anthropometric measurement system, which was then in use, which only partially relied upon fingerprints for identification. It was an improvement because fingerprinting helped to the solving of more crimes compared to the Bertillon system.
Examples
One of the earliest cases involving the use of fingerprint evidence was in 1905, when a thumb print, left on a cash box at the scene of a murder in Deptford of shopkeepers Mr. & Mrs. Farrow, was identified as belonging to Alfred Stratton, one of two brothers. As a result of this identification they were jointly charged with the crime and subsequently hanged.
Since then, fingerprint identification has