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18 Cards in this Set
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Portrait Parlé |
A verbal description of a perpetrator's physical characteristics and dress provided by an eyewitness |
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Anthropometry |
A system of identification of individuals by measurement of parts of the body, developed by Alphonse Bertillon |
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Ridge Characteristics (minutiae) |
Ridge endings, bifurcations, enclosures, and other ridge details, which must match in two fingerprints in order for their common origin to be established |
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Latent Fingerprint |
A fingerprint made by the deposits of oils and/or perspiration; it is invisible to the naked eye |
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Loop |
A class of fingerprints characterized by ridge lines that enter from one side of the pattern and curve around to exit from the same side of the pattern |
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Whorl |
A class of fingerprints that includes ridge patterns that are generally rounded or circular I shape and have two deltas |
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Arch |
A class of fingerprints characterized by ridge lines that enter the print from one side and flow out the other side |
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Livescan |
An inkless device that captures the digital images of the fingerprints and palm prints and electronically transmits the images to an AFIS |
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Visible Print |
A fingerprint made when the finger deposits a visible material such as ink, dirt, or blood onto a surface |
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Plastic Print |
A fingerprint impressed in a soft surface |
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Iodine Fuming |
A technique for visualizing latent fingerprints by exposing them to iodine vapors |
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Sublimation |
A physical change from solid directly into the gaseous state. |
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Ninhydrin |
A chemical reagent used to develop latent fingerprints on porous materials by reacting with amino acids in perspiration |
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Physical Developer |
A silver nitrate-based reagent formulated to develop latent fingerprints on porous surfaces |
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Superglue Fuming |
A technique for visualizing latent fingerprints on nonporous surfaces by exposing them to cyanoacrylate vapors |
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Fluoresce |
To emit visible light when exposed to light of a shorter wavelength |
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Digital Imaging |
A process through which a picture is converted into a series of square electronic dots known as pixels |
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Pixel |
A square electronic dot that is used to compose a digital image |
