Vocabulary I
This is the term for using measurements and statistical analyses of someone's physical characteristics to aid in the identification of them
What are Biometrics?
A fingerprint pattern in which the ridge pattern originates from one side of the print and continues to the other side
What is an Arch?
This is the percentage of people around the world with loop ridge patterns
What is 65%?
A fingerprint mistake was made in this European city during a bombing
What is Madrid?
One of multiple other methods for identification of people, other than fingerprinting
What are retinal scanners, facial scanners, iris scanners?
A fingerprint produced when fingers are coated with blood, ink, or some other substance and touch a surface, transferring a print to that surface
What are Patent Fingerprints?
A concealed fingerprint that is made visible through the use of powders or forensic techniques
What is a Latent Fingerprint?
People with arch ridge patterns make up this percentage of people in the world
What is 5%?
This man was wrongly accused of being involved with the Madrid Bombing, due to a mistaken fingerprint match in 2004
Who was Brandon Mayfield?
This type of fingerprint reader uses high frequency sound to "map" your finger
What is an Ultrasonic Scanner?
FBI-Developed national database of more than 76 million criminal fingerprints and criminal histories
What is the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS)?
A triangular ridge pattern created when ridge patterns diverge
What is a Delta?
People with this type of ridge pattern make up around 30% of the population
What is Whorl?
The wrongly accused man in the Madrid Bombings of 2004 lived in this state
What is Oregon?
These are the 2 stages involved when using a fingerprint scanning system
What are Enrollment and Verification?
These things fall into three categories: Arches, Loops, and Whorls
What are Ridge Patterns?
The combination of details in the shapes and positions of ridges in fingerprints that makes each unique
What is Minutiae?
This is the generally accepted number range of minutiae patterns needed to confirm 2 fingerprints match
What is 8-16?
This man's killer was not found right away, although investigators collected latent fingerprints, palm prints, and blood evidence from the crime scene, which happened in San Bernadino, California in 1999
Who was Marshall Adams?
Measurements such as height, wingspan, or length of arm from elbow to wrist are consider this
What are Anthropometrics?
A fingerprint pattern that resembles a bullseye
What is Whorl?
A form used to record and preserve someone's fingerprints
What is a Ten Print Card?
These 2 things are left behind on surfaces, causing a fingerprint match
What are perspiration (sweat) and oil?
This century was when fingerprint evidence was discovered as a viable option to determine who was responsible for a crime
What is the 19th century?
This is the term for an individual who was born with no fingerprints
What is adermatoglyphia?