Table of Contents

Preface — Acknowledgments — 1 Introduction — 2 Taking Inked Prints — Prints of the Living — Other Devices and Materials for Recording Prints — Major Criminal Prints — Printing Problem Subjects — Printing the Deceased — 3 Classification — Fingerprints — Palm Prints — Sole Prints — 4 The Evidence Print — The Latent Print — The Visible Print — The Plastic Impression — Locating, Developing, Preserving, and Collecting Evidence Prints — Determining the Age of an Evidence Print — 5 Photography of Prints and Impressions — The Camera — Film — Use of Colored Filters — Lighting — 6 The Basis of the Comparison — Class Characteristics — Individual Characteristics — Determining Identity — 7 Comparing Prints — Orienting the Evidence Print — Locating Minutiae — Tonally Reversed Prints — Laterally Reversed Prints — Distortion — Overlain Prints — 8 Some Comparisons of Evidence Prints — 9 Reporting and Testifying to Conclusions — References — Index.