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Suspect identities : a history of fingerprinting and criminal identification
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"Cole excavates the forgotten and hidden history of criminal identification--from photography to exotic anthropometric systems based on measuring body parts, from fingerprinting to DNA typing."--Ja...
"Cole excavates the forgotten and hidden history of criminal identification--from photography to exotic anthropometric systems based on measuring body parts, from fingerprinting to DNA typing."--Jacket.
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- Creator
- Simon A. Cole
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2001
- Physical Details
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- 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780674029682, 0674029682, 9780674004559, 9780674010024, 0674010027, 0674004558
- OCLC
- ocm45422079, ocn923111957
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Jekylls and Hydes -- Impostors and incorrigible rogues -- Measuring the criminal body -- Native prints -- Degenerate fingerprints -- Fingerprinting foreigners -- From anthropometry to dactyloscopy -- Bloody fingerprints and brazen experts -- Dazzling demonstrations and easy assumptions -- Identification at a distance -- Digital digits -- Fraud, fabrication, and false positives -- The genetic age -- Bodily identities