(PhysOrg.com) -- It has long been well established that fingerprints can be used to identify people or help convict them of crimes. Things have gone a lot further now: fingerprints can be used to show ...

Police have arrested innocent people due to faulty fingerprint analysis but have not determined how many cases were affected by such errors, police officials said. A confidential police report details ...

Pioneering technology designed by Sheffield Hallam University to provide an in-depth analysis of fingerprints is being tried and tested at crime scenes. The technology, known as Matrix Assisted Laser ...

Criminals typically leave behind fingerprints at the crime scene. Forensics helps investigators analyse these fingerprints. However, fingerprints left at a crime scene are often partial, distorted and ...

The first big case involving fingerprint evidence in the United States was the murder trial of Thomas Jennings in Chicago in 1911. Jennings had broken into a home in the middle of the night and, when ...

Overlapping and weak fingerprints pose challenges in criminal cases. A new study offers a solution and brings hope for using chemical residues in fingerprints for personal profiling. A groundbreaking ...

A new report from a panel appointed in 2008 to study the causes and recommend ways to reduce errors caps its work with forensic experts. Feb 28, 2012 About two and a half years of work by a ...

With hand lenses and magnifying domes, a classroom full of coroners poured over pages of fingerprints Wednesday, Dec. 11. The coroners from all over Colorado squinted at the fingerprints’ friction ...