Suspect Identities

A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification

Автор: Simon A. Cole

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Harvard University Press

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"No two fingerprints are alike," or so it goes. For nearly a hundred years fingerprints have represe...

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Автор

Simon A. Cole

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2002

страници

382

EAN

9780674010024

ISBN

0674010027

Enbook ID

01390388

Издател

Harvard University Press

Теглоt

574

Размери

156 x 233 x 25

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"No two fingerprints are alike," or so it goes. For nearly a hundred years fingerprints have represented definitive proof of individual identity in our society. We trust them to tell us who committed a crime, whether a criminal record exists, and how to resolve questions of disputed identity. But in this text, Simon Cole reveals that the history of criminal identification is far murkier than we have been led to believe. Cole traces the modern system of fingerprint identification to the 19th-century bureaucratic state, and its desire to track and control increasingly mobile, diverse populations whose race or ethnicity made them suspect in the eyes of authorities. In an intriguing history that traverses the globe, taking us to India, Argentina, France, England, and the United States, Cole excavates the forgotten history of criminal identification - from photography to exotic anthropometric systems based on measuring body parts, from finger-printing to DNA typing. He reveals how fingerprinting ultimately won the trust of the public and the law only after a long battle against rival identification systems. As we rush headlong into the era of genetic identification, and as fingerprint errors are being exposed, this history uncovers the fascinating interplay of our elusive individuality, police and state power, and the quest for scientific certainty.

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