Forensics Fingerprinting Review

Identify the fingerprint type.

• arch

• whorl

• loop

Identify the fingerprint type.

• arch

• whorl

• loop

Identify the fingerprint type.

• arch

• whorl

• loop

What is identified by the green mark?

• core

• loop

• dot

• delta

What is identified by the red mark?

• core

• loop

• dot

• delta

In 1879, the assistant clerk in the records office at the police station in Paris created a way to identify criminals. The system was first used in 1883 to identify repeat offenders. The name of the clerk who invented the system was:

• Alphonse Herschel

• Alphonse Bertillon

• Sir William Herschel

• Sir William Herschey

The imprint of a fingerprint consists of natural secretions of the sweat glands that are present:

• in the friction ridge of the skin.

• on the surface of the skin.

• just under the surface of the skin.

• under the friction ridge of the skin.

An example of a latent print is a bloody fingerprint.

• True

• False

Actual indentations left in some soft material such as clay, putty, or wax is which type of fingerprint?

• latent

• patent

• plastic

• None of the above

Fingerprint whorl patterns may be a

• plain whorl.

• central pocket loop whorl.

• double loop whorl.

• All of these choices.