Personal Identification: Methods for the Identification of Individuals, Living or Dead (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Creighton, James Edwin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 144008176X ISBN 13 : 9781440081767

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Unlock the science of recognizing people beyond looks. This nonfiction guide lays out how bodies carry unique, lasting identifiers and how investigators use them to confirm identity.

From Bertillon’s measurements to the famous fingerprint system, the book surveys established methods and introduces two practical, new approaches based on the friction ridges of palms and the soles of the feet. It blends theory with real-world applications, aiming to help families, insurers, banks, hospitals, and law enforcement understand the options for identifying living or deceased individuals—even when faces are altered or bodies damaged.

Designed for both professionals and curious readers, this edition explains how prints are made, described, and classified, and it discusses the future potential of identification techniques while presenting actual cases and illustrations to illuminate the methods in use.

• Clear explanations of various identification methods, from visual recognition to bodily measurements


• Practical, step-by-step guidance on taking and describing fingerprints and prints


• Introduction of palm and sole pattern techniques for immediate applicability


• Contextual discussion of historical and future directions in identification science

Ideal for readers interested in criminal identification, forensic science, or the history of how we verify who a person is.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION
CHAPTER I
the problem
"And he causetli all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads; and that no man might buy or sell, save that he had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."_Rev. XJ.JJ: 16, 17.
THROUGH our city streets pass and repass vehicles of all sorts, each bearing a license number, conspicuously displayed. As these numbers are all recorded at the place where each vehicle is owned, they furnish an easy means of identifying the individual vehicles.
The people that pass in a double current upon cither side of this stream of traffic are not thus registered; they bear no identification number, and have a place in the commonwealth simply by virtue of a personal name, recorded at the time of birth, and held simply in the memory of the individual himself and of his personal acquaintances. Under numerous circumstances, some of them by no means rare, this loo

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; Part T; Methods Which Furnish Partial Identification; Chapter I The Problem; Cuaptkr 11 Sight Recognition and Its Uncertainties Chapter III Identification by Moles, Birthmarks, Scars,; Tattooing, and other Surface Markings Chapter IV Identification by Habits, Gait, Handwriting,; Preferences, Accomplishments, Voice, etc Chapter V Identification by Bodily Measurements, and; by tbc Features of the Head and Face; the; Bertillon System ; Chaptkr VI Identification of Fragmentary, Decomposed, or; Dried Remains; Identification of Bones and; Teeth; Chapter VII Identification of the Skull; Restoration of the; Face upon the Bones; Pack; 17; 27; 41; 52; 59; 73; 96; Part II; Methods Which Furnish Absolute Identification; Chapter I Friction Skin and Friction Ridges; Technique of;

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 144008176X
• ISBN 13: 9781440081767
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 380
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