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Fingerprinting and Forensic Resources

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What is a Fingerprint?

A fingerprint is an impression of the friction ridges of all or any part of the finger. A friction ridge is a raised portion of the epidermis on the palmar or plantar skin, consisting of one or more connected ridge units of friction ridge skin.  These ridges are sometimes known as "dermal ridges" or "dermal papillae".

Fingerprints may be deposited in natural secretions from the eccrine glands present in friction ridge skin (secretions consisting primarily of water) or they may be made by ink or other contaminants transferred from the peaks of friction skin ridges to a relatively smooth surface such as a fingerprint card. 

The term fingerprint normally refers to the impressions transferred from the pad on the last joint of fingers and thumbs, though fingerprint cards also typically record portions of lower joint areas of the fingers (which are also used to effect identifications).

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Fingerprinting Resources

Following are resources for fingerprinting, fingerprinting products and systems, and other forensic resources:

Cogent Systems Inc. The world's leading supplier of integrated system solutions using biometrics for both government and commercial customers.
East Shore Technologies Automated fingerprint identification systems
FBI Fingerprint Overview A fingerprint identification overview from the FBI.
FBI Fingerprint ID Request An FBI Identification Record, often referred to as a Criminal History Record or Rap Sheet, is a listing of certain information taken from fingerprint submissions retained by the FBI in connection with arrests and, in some instances, federal employment, naturalization, or military service. If the fingerprints are related to an arrest, the Identification Record includes name of the agency that submitted the fingerprints to the FBI, the date of arrest, the arrest charge, and the disposition of the arrest, if known to the FBI. All arrest data included in an Identification Record is obtained from fingerprint submissions, disposition reports and other reports submitted by agencies having criminal justice responsibilities.
Fingerprinting.com

 

Fingerprinting.com, the website where you can learn everything about fingerprinting, its history, and its present day use. Fingerprinting.com contains informative and useful articles on the subjects of Human Fingerprinting, DNA Fingerprinting, Fingerprinting Services, and Fingerprinting Products.

Fingerprinting Books, Articles, and News
Project Gutenberg: The Science of Fingerprints EBook Project Gutenberg provides an EBook of the official FBI manual on fingerprinting, Science of Fingerprints: Classification and Uses.
Galton.org: Francis Galton and Fingerprints Sir Francis Galton's books, papers, articles, letters, interviews, and other published matter on the subject of fingerprints.
Carnegie Mellon: Scalable Document Fingerprinting Presents a system for document comparison based on textual similarity for related document searches and copyright/plagiarism protection.
National Science Foundation: From Fingerprints to Fiberprints Fingerprints left on a piece of research equipment sprouted nanofibers when they interacted with cyanoacrylate glue.
U.S. Government Fingerprinting Resources
U.S. Federal Government: Biometrics.gov Includes biometrics reference room, recommended biometric standards, and Subcommittee on Biometrics and Identity Management info.
Biometrics Catalog Database of public information about biometric technologies including government documents, privacy impact assessments, and research reports.
National Institute of Standards and Technology: Matching Up Fingerprints Includes NIST fingerprint interactive "Solving Crimes, Improving Security" and suspect fingerprint matching game.
U.S National Institute of Justice: Fast Capture Fingerprinting NIJ has funded researchers to develop, evaluate, and improve the way fingerprints are taken.
FBI.gov: Taking Legible Fingerprints Information on the nature of fingerprints and an outline on the techniques for taking legible fingerprints.
U.S. Dept of Homeland Security: How US-VISIT Works Under US-VISIT, U.S. Customs and Border Protection use inkless, digital, 10-fingerprint scanners to collect visitors' biometrics.
U.S. Department of Defense: Biometrics Task Force Government organization dedicated to protecting the nation through the employment of biometric technologies and capabilities.
Human Genome Program: DNA Forensics How forensic identification works, understanding its accuracies, its interesting uses, and databases such as CODIS
Argonne National Laboratory: Human Clone Fingerprints If you were to clone a human, would the fingerprints of the clone and original human be the same?
The Biometrics Consortium Sponsored by the US government, this consortium organizes a yearly biometrics conference. Website contains info about past conferences and current government and standards activity
U.S. Marshals: Fingerprint Information United States Marshals website asks what type of fingerprints do you have and why fingerprint identification?
State Fingerprinting Resources
West Virginia: Biometrics Companies, government agencies, and universities in the biometrics market.
California: Fingerprint Submissions California Fingerprinting
Colorado: Educator Fingerprinting Colorado Fingerprinting
Florida: Fingerprinting Application Site Florida Fingerprinting
Illinois: Criminal History Information Illinois Fingerprinting
Kansas: Fingerprint-Based Record Check Kansas Fingerprinting
Maryland: Background Checks Maryland Fingerprinting
Ohio: Fingerprint Submission Ohio Fingerprinting
Texas: Educator Fingerprinting Texas Fingerprinting
Wyoming: Criminal History Checks Wyoming Fingerprinting

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