ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Published Online: 1 July 1981
Page Count: 2

A Review of Identification of Thumb Impressions and Cross Examination of Fingerprint Experts
Roth, CH
Latent print examiner II, Arizona Department of Public Safety, Southern Regional Latent Print Unit, Ariz.

Abstract

Unless you are a thumbprint examiner or handwriting examiner in India, this book will not be of much use to you. In the preface, the author states that “the book contains all about fingerprints.” In fact, it deals only with one small part of the field of fingerprint identification. The author has limited his book to the identification and comparison of inked thumbprints to inked thumbprints as they appear on documents of questioned authorship and does not touch on any of the other types of fingerprint identification. In fairness to the author, his field of expertise is important in India and other countries with a high illiteracy rate, but it is not a field used much in the United States.

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Paper ID: JFS11413J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS11413J
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