Fingerprint Patterns
This is the most common fingerprint pattern.
What is a loop?
This powder is commonly used to make latent fingerprints visible.
What is fingerprint powder?
What clever title did Galton come up with for his groundbreaking book about fingerprints?
What is Finger Prints?
This agency has the largest fingerprint database, called IAFIS.
What is the FBI?
Indirect evidence that may link someone to a crime
Circumstantial
This pattern has ridges that enter on one side and exit on the opposite side.
What is an arch?
This advanced technique involves using a high-resolution digital scanner to capture detailed images of fingerprints for analysis and comparison.
What is digital fingerprint scanning?
Fingerprints are ______, no two people have the exact same fingerprint.
What is unique?
What does AFIS stand for?
What is Automated Fingerprint Identification System?
Items that may be tested and examined; blood, fingerprints, toolmarks, etc.
Physical Evidence
This pattern is characterized by at least one ridge that makes a complete circuit.
What is a whorl?
This chemical is often used to develop latent prints on porous surfaces by reacting with amino acids.
What is ninhydrin?
Fingerprints ___ ___ ___ over a lifetime - if a person commits a crime, the fingerprints left there will still match the suspect if he is caught decades later.
What is do not change?
This organization helps countries share fingerprint data to solve crimes across borders.
What is INTERPOL?
the place where an offense has been committed and forensic evidence may be gathered
crime scene
This type of arch pattern is the more common one, featuring ridges that rise smoothly.
What is a plain arch?
This technique involves applying a fine powder, such as magnetic powder or fluorescent powder, to make latent fingerprints visible.
What is powder dusting?
When were fingerprints first used in Europe and United States?
What is the late 1800s
This system, managed by the United States Department of Homeland Security, stores fingerprints and other biometrics to strengthen border security.
What is Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT)?
Substance used for super glue fuming process on objects to find and collect latent prints
Cyanoacrylate
This rarer type of arch pattern has a sharp upward spike.
What is a tented arch?
This type of light is used in forensic labs to enhance the visibility of latent fingerprints.
What is ultraviolet light?
This British scientist is credited with pioneering the use of fingerprints for identification. Known as the Father of Fingerprinting
Who is Sir Francis Galton?
The newer version of IAFIS, started in 2011.
What is NGI (Next Generation Identification)?
The study of fingerprints. the word is derived from the Greek daktulos, meaning finger.
Dactyloscopy