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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...