Deck 5: Known Fingerprints

Question 1

List the alternate names for known prints.

Answer 1

a. Exemplars
b. Inked prints
c. Record prints
d. Standards

Question 2

Why are known prints recorded?

Answer 2

a. To serve as an official record of a person's identity
b. To search for a match to a prior arrest record
c. To compare to unknown, or latent, fingerprints
d. To input into the automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS) for subsequent searches

Question 3

major case prints are records of fingers, finger joints, palms, the writers palm (side of the hand) and the joints, tips and sides of fingers.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What are the three methods for recording known fingerprints?

Question 5

What are tenprint cards?

Question 6

Why is a fingerprint in ink rolled from "nail to nail"?

Question 7

when the thumb is rolled, the subject's hand is rotated away from the body.

Question 8

How are powdered fingerprint records different from inked fingerprint records?

Question 9

powdered fingerprint records are official government formatted records that can be filed for entry into an AFIS system.

Question 10

What is a livescan device?

Question 11

What are the five advantages to livescan fingerprinting?

Question 12

Why is it necessary to collect postmortem exemplars?

Question 13

Why is rigor mortis a challenge for collecting fingerprint exemplars from deceased individuals?

Question 14

How are fingerprints recorded when an individual is in full rigor?

Question 15

putrefaction occurs when the skin is submerged in water and the tissues become swollen.

Question 16

Describe two methods of recording putrefied friction ridge skin.

Question 17

Describe how to fingerprint macerated skin.

Question 18

How is mummified skin rehydrated?