Forensic Science - Identification of Finger Prints

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Table of Contents
Part 1. Forensic Science
1. Forensic Science and Finger Prints
2. The Science of Forensic Sciences
3. The Sciences, Scientific methods and Scientific witness
4. Court of Law and Forensic Science Experts
5. The Science of Identification its Basic Tenets
6. Forensic Science and Law
Part 2. Finger Print
1. The History, Origin and Importance of Finger Prints
2. Finger Print Works (Year 1805 To Year 1987).
3. Finger Print Science-the Pioneers
4. Finger Print Science an Indian Origi
5. Finger Print Science the Indian Origin
6. Individuality of Finger Prints
7. Finger Prints Immutable
8. Equipments Needed for Examination Comparison of Finger Prints
9. Finger Prints, Ridges, Pattern, Skin and Ridge Formations
10. Type Lines, Pattern Area & Fixed Points of a Finger Print Core and Delta
11. Subsidiary or Countersunk Ridges
12. Finger Print Patterns
13. Rare, Exceptional and Doubtful Patterns
14. Mis-Leading Patterns (Marginal/Transitional)
15. Some Questionable, Unusual & Interesting Patterns
16. Creases in Finger Prints
17. Scars in Finger Prints
18. Warts
19. Plain & Rolled Impressions.
20. Nomenclature of Ridge Characteristics
21. Area of an Impression Distribution of Ridge Characteristics
22. Importance of Ridges, Ridge Characteristics and their Measurement in Identification of Finger Prints.
23. Ridge Counting
24. Ridge Tracing
25. Superimposed Thumb Impressions.
26. Principles of Finger Print Identification & how Finger Prints are Identified
27. Points of Identity Needed for Identifying a Finger Print
28. Points which Prove Non-Identity of Thumb Impressions
29. Is the Thumb Impression of Left the Thumb or Right Thumb.
30. Importance of the Left Thumb Impression
31. Identification of Finger Prints in Absence of Fixed Points (Core & Delta)
32. Photography,
33. Presentation of Finger Print Evidence in Court of Law
34. Pinoscopy Finger Print
35. A Distorted Finger Print.
36. Finger Prints and Heredity.
37. Comparison of a Thumb Impression & a Finger Impression
38. Thumb Impressions of a Dead Sos Oralive Person
39. Latent Finger Prints
40. Poroscopy
41. Palm Print Identification.
42. Foot Print Identification
43. The Role of the Expert
44. A finger Print Expert & Court Testimony
45. Proforma of Reports Submitted In the Court of Law
46. Why Two Different Opinions of Experts
47. Critical Analysis Of An Expert Opinion Submitted In the Court Of Law Regarding Two Thumb Impression Said to be Same Origin
48. Finger Prints & Forgery
49. Classification/Registration and Identification of Finger Prints
50. Non-Criminal Finger Printing
51. Examination-in-Chief, Cross Examination and Re-Examination, Examination-In-Chief
Subject Index
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Author Details
Mr. Chandra Kumar Johari, who has an illustrious career as a Forensic Consultant and Criminologist since 1965, has many academic achievements to his credit. He began his distinguished career as an Advocate in Uttar Pradesh but soon went on to don many roles, too many for recollection and only a few can be highlighted here. He is a writer, a member of several international forensic organizations and a visiting faculty for reputed national and international training institutes. He has made signal contribution to the understanding and knowledge of forensic science. Mr. Chandra Kumar Johari continues to take pride in his work and profession and by virtue of his fame and reputation in the field of forensics, he is invited to many training institutes and bar associations in India and abroad. Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Mauritius are some of the countries he visited and he continues to visit those countries to lecture on vital issues like finger prints, handwriting identification and allied matters.