Classes
These are the three main types of fingerprints
What are arches, loops, and whorls?
A triangular ridge pattern with ridges that go in different directions above and below a triangle
What is a delta
This arch contains a delta.
What is a TENTED ARCH?
The three types of prints found by investigators at a crime scene are these.
What are patent, latent, and plastic prints?
Must be included in closeup crime scene photos.
What is a ruler?
This is the most common type of fingerprint.
What is loop?
The center of a loop or whorl
What is a core
A pattern that enters a print on the pinky side and exits the same side.
What is ULNAR LOOP?
This type of evidence is provided by a fingerprint.
What is Individual / Biological / Circumstantial?
Three perspectives of photos taken at a crime scene.
What is overall, midrange, and close-up?
This fingerprint class contains two deltas.
What is whorl?
A combination of details in the shapes and position of ridges in fingerprints that make each unique; also called a ridge
What are Minutiae
The study of fingerprint identification.
What is a DACTYLOSCOPY?
A technique used to lift latent fingerprints.
What is dusting?
A print left behind with transferred blood or ink that cannot be lifted with dusting.
What is a patent fingerprint?
This fingerprint pattern does not contain deltas
What is arch?
The dark and light areas of a fingerprint.
What are ridges and valleys?
Two body parts that contain ridge patterns other than fingers?
What are toes, feet, and palms?
An important documented trail of the packaged evidence.
What is CHAIN OF CUSTODY?
A lighting technique in photos used to display depth.
What is OBLIQUE LIGHTING?
Two types of arches.
What are plain and tented?
A form used to record and preserve a person's fingerprints
What is a TEN Card?
The formal term for a fork pattern.
What is bifuraction?
A federal databank of fingerprints.
What is the IAFIS or AFIS?
(Integrated, Automated Fingerprint Identification System)
Must be completed before leaving the scene and coded to match evidence location.
What is crime scene sketch?