Forensics Test 3

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Professor who published a thesis describing illustrations of the nine fingerprint patters

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Johannes Evangelist Purkinje

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English administrator who started placing inked palm impressions of some members of the local population in contracts. Began fingerprinting all prisoners in jail.

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Sir William Herschel

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A Scottish missionary doctor--set up hospital in Japan. Fingerprint patterns are highly variable and superficial injury did not alter them--they do not change.

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Dr. Henry Faulds

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Established the idea of individuality and permanence of fingerprints. Established first means of fingerprint classification. Identified 'Minutia'

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Sir Francis Galton

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Devised his own system of fingerprint classification--System used through Spanish speaking countries. (First conviction by means of fingerprint evidence was in 1892).

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Juan Vucetich

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Devised a workable classification system. Published Classification and Uses of Fingerprints--used by police forces and prison authorities throughout the English speaking world.

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Sir Edward Henry

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Developed the first truly organized system of identifying individuals in 1883. Believed everyone could be distinguished from one another by measurements of their body.

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Alphonse Bertillon (berillonage)

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Murdered two children in Argentina. Beginning of using fingerprints for identification based on Galton's theory.

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Francesca Rojas

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First person in US to be convicted on fingerprint evidence. Three of the four expert witnesses were trained by Scotland Yard experts at STL world's fair.

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Thomas Jennings

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lines of the fingerprint.

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Minutia

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Has friction ridges that enter on one side of the finger and cross to the other side while rising upward in the middle. No deltas or cores. Two types: Plain and Tented.

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Arch

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Must have one or more ridges entering and exiting from the same side it began. Has a delta and a core. Have one Delta. Two types: Radio (opens toward the thumb) and Ulnar (opens toward the pinky)

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Loop

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Have at least one ridge that makes a complete circuit. Has two deltas.

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Whorl

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Automated scanning devices converting the image of a fingerprint into digital minutiae

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AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Identification System)

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Gland of largely water with both inorganic and organic compounds.

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Eccrine

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Secrete cytoplasm and nuclear materials

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Apocrine

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Secrete fatty or greasy substances

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Sebaceous

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First case in Florida's legal history that relied on bite-mark testimony

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Ted Bundy

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Use of some type of body metrics for the purpose of identification. (Used today in conjuction with AFIS)

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Biometrics