Suspect Identities

By Simon A. COLE
"Cole excavates the forgotten and hidden history of criminal identification--from photography to exotic anthropometric systems based on measuring body parts, from fingerprinting to DNA typing"--Jacket.

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Publisher Harvard University Press
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