Advances in fingerprint technology

The first edition of this book was published as a volume in the Elsevier Series in Forensic and Police Science. Elsevier’s book business has since been acquired by CRC Press LLC and CRC has supported and extended their forensic science program. We thank CRC for the opportunity to revise Advances in Fingerprint Technology to this second edition. Fingerprints is an area in which there have been many new and exciting developments in the past two decades or so, although advances in DNA typing have tended to dominate both the forensic science literature and popular information about advances in forensic sciences. Particularly in the realm of methods for developing latent prints, but also in the growth of imaging and AFIS technologies, fingerprint science has seen extraordinary breakthroughs because creative applications of principles derived from physics and organic chemistry have been applied to it.