History of Forensic Analysis

Note: There will be approximately 5 questions over the History of Fingerprint Analysis on the unit test. You should learn this material on your own to answer the questions on the test. If memorization is difficult for you, I will provide a second option. You may type a short history of fingerprinting, in your own words, that includes the main points in the following information plus one novel or new piece of information not found on this page (include a citation or URL for the source of your novel information). You may hand in your typed history on the day of the test in lieu of the 5 questions. You will be graded on your effort and your points will be added to your test grade. Your typed history may earn only as much as the 5 questions are worth.

Sir William Herschel, a British officer working for the Indian Civil service, began to use thumbprints 1856 on documents both as a substitute for written signatures for illiterates and to verify document signatures.

Henry Faulds, a Scottish physician working in Tokyo, published a paper in the journal suggesting that at the scene of a crime could identify the offender. In one of the first 1880 recorded uses of fingerprints to solve a crime, Faulds used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent suspect and indicate a perpetrator in a Tokyo burglary.

(Sir) (half-cousin of ) published Fingerprints, the first comprehensive 1892 book on the nature of fingerprints and their use in solving crime. He was first to identify 8 different types of fingerprint patterns.

Sir Edward Richard Henry developed the print classification system that would come to be used in 1896 Europe and North America. He published Classification and Uses of Finger Prints.

Sir Edward Richard Henry was appointed head of Scotland Yard and forced the adoption of 1901 fingerprint identification to replace anthropometry.

Edmund Locard, successor to Lacassagne as Professor of forensic medicine at the University of Lyons, 1910 France, established the first police crime laboratory.

Edmond Locard (Locard’s Exchange Principle) first suggested 12 matching points as a positive 1918 fingerprint identification.

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