Suspect Identities: A History Of Fingerprinting And Criminal Identification
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 369 pp. with index. Illustrations. For over a hundred years fingerprints have represented definitive proof of individual identity in our society---"no two fingerprints are alike". Here, however, the author reveals that the history of crinimal identification is far murkier than we've been led to believe. He traces the modern systm of fingerprint identifcation to the 19th century bureaucratic state and its desire to track and control an increasingly mobile and diverse population. The story transverses the globe, from India, Argentina, France, England and the United States and looks at forgotten and hidden history of criminal identifcation from photography to anthropometic systems of measuring body parts, fingerprinting to DNA typing. Fine / fine. Item #E25560
ISBN: 9780674004559
Price: $17.50