Personal Identification Flashcards
Latin word “FORUM” =
MARKET PLACE
Market Place where people gathered for
PUBLIC DISCUSSION
The word forensic means?
Legal
The application of scientific techniques and principles in order to provide evidence to legal or related investigations and determinations.
Forensic Science
A profession or field of forensic science that details with recognition, collection, preservation and examination of physical evidence for the administration of justice.
Criminalistics
What is Personal Identification?
- characteristics/ peculiarities/ traits by which an individual is identified or that which makes a person unique.
- May also refer to the means by which an individual is made known or recognized.
- Characteristics/ peculiarities/ traits by which an individual is identified or that which makes a person unique.
- May also refer to the means by which an individual is made known or recognized.
Personal Identification
The act of naming somebody
Proof of identity
Identification
Methods of Identification
- Branding
- Mutilation
- Tattooing
- Descriptive Clothing
- Measurement of the Height (Quetelet’s method)
- Photographic Eye (Eugene Francois vidocq Method)
- Photographing
- Anthropological Measurement or Bertillionage
was sentenced to incarceration at United States Penitentiary.
Will West
prehistoric picture writing of a hand with ridge patterns was discovered.
Nova Scotia
FP were used in clay tablets for business transactions.
Ancient Babylon
thumb prints were found on clay seals. Some of these seals can be seen in the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, WASHINGTON, D.C.. (Tang Dynasty, 618-907)
Ancient China
The first Chinese ruler who devised a seal carved from a white jade.
Emperor Te’ in Shi (BC 246-210)
To the Chinese, fingerprints are known as
Hua Chi
are kept to preserve the identity of people.
Slices of matches of fingerprints
arches are known as
Lo (snail)
Loops are known as
Ki (sieve/ basket)
The loops are called upon as
presage of good luck
Grandfather of Dactyloscopy
1686, Marcello Malpighi
a professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna, noted in his treaties; ridges, spirals and loops in fingerprints.
Marcello Malpighi
He made no mention of their value as a tool for individual identification.
Marcello Malpighi
Treaties that noted by Marcello Malpighi
ridges, spirals and loops in fingerprints
Father of Dactyloscopy
1923, John Evangelist Purkinji
a professor of anatomy at the University of Breslau, published his thesis discussing 9 FP patterns but he too made no mention of the value of FP for personal identification.
John Evangelist Purkinji
Published by John Evangelist Pukinji in his thesis discussing
9 Fingerprint patterns
1858, an English civil servant (India), required natives to sign contracts with an imprint of their right hand-Hindi custom
William Herschel
