Module 1- Introduction To Personal Identification Flashcards
It is the application of the principles of various sciences in solving problems
in connection with the administration of justice.
It also referred to as Forensic Science or Police Science.
Criminalistics
An Australian magistrate to described Search for Truth as the
ultimate goal of all investigative and detective works. He is known as the Father of Modern Criminalistics.
Dr. Hans Gross
This law cite that the greater number of similarities or dissimilarities; the greater is the probability for the conclusion to be correct.
Law of Multiplicity of Evidence
Father of Personal Identification. The first to devise a scientific method of identification called Anthropometry.
Alphonse Bertillion
It is a scientific method of identification.
Anthropometry
A fingerprint was first used in China before the birth of Christianity. They called it a?
Hua Chi
It is also known as DACTYLOGRAM is an impression, designed by the ridges on the inside of the end joints of the fingers and thumbs on any smooth surface through the media of ink, sweat or any reagents capable of producing
visibility.
Fingerprint
The science that deals with the study of fingerprints as a means
of personal identification that involves manual comparison of fingerprints.
Dactyloscopy
The scientific study and analysis of fingerprints as a means of identification.
Dactylography
The study of fingerprints for the purpose of interpreting
one’s personality.
Dactylomancy
It is the science of palm print identification.
Chiroscopy
It is the identification of footprints and footwear.
Podoscopy
It is the study of the pore structure for the purpose of identification.
Poroscopy
The study of the edges and shapes of the ridges.
Edgeoscopy
The study of ridges with the combination of:
poroscopy; edgeoscopy; and
ridge characteristics.
Ridgeology
He introduced the Ridgeology a book author entitled “Quantitative-Qualitative Friction Ridge Analysis: An Introduction to Basic and Advanced Ridgeology.”
Sgt. David R. Ashbaugh
It is a study of the lines, tracings, ridges of the skin of fingers, palms
and hands.
Dermatoglyphics
An animal that have a fingerprints which are almost the same with human beings. It is proven that there fingerprints are mistakenly identified as human fingerprints.
Monkeys
These are hill like, elevated, appear as black lines with tiny white dots called
pores in an inked impression.
Ridges
A canal-like, depressed portions found between the ridges which appear
white lines.
Furrows
It is sometimes called islands, these is are small opening found on skin and appear white on plain impression.
Pores
It is a long-host like structure that serves as the passage way for the
sweat.
Sweat Duct
States that fingerprints are unchanging or constant from birth until the decomposition of the body of the person.
Principle of Permanency
There are no two fingerprints that are exactly alike,” except if two fingerprints were taken from the same finger and the same
person.
pattern or design but considering its minute characteristics, they differ
Principle of Individuality
Fingerprinting is one of the most reliable means of personal identification.
Fingerprints cannot be forged, unlike signatures and handwritings.
Principle of Infallibility
