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Forensic science and fingerprints
Forensic science and fingerprints

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Acknowledgements

Course image: Ricky Romero [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this book.

Figure 2: Taken from http://finger-prints.com/ _wsn/ page4.html

Figure 3: Taken from Seattle Times, 7 June 2004

Figure 4: Esther Neate, Neate Imaging Services

Figure 8: © Volker Steger/Still Pictures

Figure 9: Rogers Plants Limited.

Every effort has been made to contact the copyright holders. If any have been inadvertently overlooked the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

Figure 4.4 (fingerprint visualisation) reproduced by kind permission of Sarah Fieldhouse, Staffordshire University, UK

Figures 4.6 and 4.7 freom Bowman. V. (ed) (2005) Fingerprint Development Handbook (2nd edn.). Reproduced under the term of the click-use library.

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