NCJ Number
91956
Date Published
1983
Length
166 pages
Annotation
To familiarize law enforcement officers and trainees with methods of identification for living individuals as well as with these employed for the identification of deceased individuals, this book delineates all techniques utilized in human identification.
Abstract
The text covers fingerprints; serology; human hair identification; voiceprints, earprints, and handwriting; postmortem investigations; identifying human remains, identifying human skeletal remains; and legal issues in human identification. Extensive illustrations are provided. Each chapter contains its own reference list and a bibliography of additional references. An index is also supplied.