Suspect Identities

A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification

Simon A. Cole

  • 2003 Rachel Carson Prize for a Work of Social or Political Relevance, Sponsored by the Society for Social Studies of Science

Prologue: Jekylls and Hydes

1. Impostors and Incorrigible Rogues

2. Measuring the Criminal Body

3. Native Prints

4. Degenerate Fingerprints

5. Fingerprinting Foreigners

6. From Anthropometry to Dactyloscopy

7. Bloody Fingerprints and Brazen Experts

8. Dazzling Demonstrations and Easy Assumptions

9. Identification at a Distance

10. Digital Digits

11. Fraud, Fabrication, and False Positives

12. The Genetic Age

Epilogue: Bodily Identities

Notes

Credits

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: Suspect Identities
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Simon A. Cole is Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at University of California, Irvine.