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Principles of forensic identification science
- Introduction
- Forensic science under attack
- Origin and relevance
- The Putten murder
- Individualization: the determination of identity of source
- Identification, classification and individualization
- Recognition, identification and verification in biometry
- Relationships between traces and their sources
- Traditional forensic identification: the weight of evidence
- Verbal or quantitative statements
- Alternatives to the probability scales: ‘consistent with’
- Criticisms of traditional probability scales
- Towards a logically correct scale
- The classical approach: the underlying principles
- Uniqueness and identity
- Level of analysis for the inference of identity of source
- How trace evidence arises
- The transfer principle: ‘every contact leaves a trace’
- Donors and receptors: primary and secondary transfer
- The principle of the divisibility of matter
- The traditional interpretation of trace evidence
- The individualization principle: ‘that cannot be a coincidence’
- Class characteristics and individual characteristics: natural variation and wear
- The fundamental principles of criminalistics revisited
- Dactyloscopy – the ‘positivity doctrine’: ‘all or nothing’
- Conclusion
- References
- Selected further reading
Abstract
Criminalistics is the science of individualization (Kirk 1963a).
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