Importance of Finger Printing
IntroductionI will give you a very brief but detailed history of fingerprinting and where it originated, Valerie will then give a general summary of finger printing and tell us how it works etc and finally sarah will explain to us the modern uses of finger printing and how it is used in todays world. We hope you enjoy or presentation and that it broadens your mind about a very interesting evidence area. Thank you.
When we think of finger printing we immediately think of C.S.I Miami or C.S.I Las vegas and using swabs to gather vital D.N.A evidence or using a very complicated looking machine to take some ones actual prints. However it did not all start like that and a fingerprinting like everything else had to develop over time. Finger printing had to progress down the years…
In fact Pre-historic picture writing of a hand with ridge patterns was discovered in Nova Scotia. And In ancient Babylon, fingerprints were used on clay tablets for business transactions. Also In ancient China, thumb prints were found on clay seals.
So in fact Using fingerprints to identify a person has been used for a lot longer than most people realize. There is good evidence that the Chinese used fingerprints to sign legal documents as long ago as 1000 BCE.
In the mid-1800s, French anthropologist Alphonse Bertillon came up with a system to measure and record certain parts of the body. Applying a mathematical formula, he determined that each person's set of measurements was unique.
Twelve years later, English scientist Sir Francis Galton published the book, finger prints , which laid out a classification technique for fingerprints. In 1891, Juan Vusetick, a policeman in Argentina, started collecting fingerprint files based on Galton's pattern types, along with each person's Bertillon measurements.
The next year, during the investigation of the attempted murder of a woman and the successful killing of her two sons, a bloody print was found on a doorpost. Vusetick matched the
When we think of finger printing we immediately think of C.S.I Miami or C.S.I Las vegas and using swabs to gather vital D.N.A evidence or using a very complicated looking machine to take some ones actual prints. However it did not all start like that and a fingerprinting like everything else had to develop over time. Finger printing had to progress down the years…
In fact Pre-historic picture writing of a hand with ridge patterns was discovered in Nova Scotia. And In ancient Babylon, fingerprints were used on clay tablets for business transactions. Also In ancient China, thumb prints were found on clay seals.
So in fact Using fingerprints to identify a person has been used for a lot longer than most people realize. There is good evidence that the Chinese used fingerprints to sign legal documents as long ago as 1000 BCE.
In the mid-1800s, French anthropologist Alphonse Bertillon came up with a system to measure and record certain parts of the body. Applying a mathematical formula, he determined that each person's set of measurements was unique.
Twelve years later, English scientist Sir Francis Galton published the book, finger prints , which laid out a classification technique for fingerprints. In 1891, Juan Vusetick, a policeman in Argentina, started collecting fingerprint files based on Galton's pattern types, along with each person's Bertillon measurements.
The next year, during the investigation of the attempted murder of a woman and the successful killing of her two sons, a bloody print was found on a doorpost. Vusetick matched the