A Short History of Fingerprinting

In the brief history of fingerprints, fingerprints are used as a means of identification as law enforcement officers need to keep permanent records in order to judge whether the criminals were previously arrested or imprisoned . Before the emergence of fingerprints, law enforcement agencies used various methods to achieve this goal. Ancient civilizations can tattoo prisoners and physically harm. Recently, Dargle remote (shooting) is used, but since people can change the appearance greatly, it has been proved that reliability is low (Skopitz).

Over the past 100 years, fingerprinting service has helped criminals in all governments around the world. Fingerprints are the basic tool for any police agency to identify a person with a criminal record. These are still the most commonly collected forensic evidence in the world, and in most jurisdictions fingerprints are more common than all other forensic tests. In addition, thousands of people are participating in the fingerprint library everyday in the US alone every day - far more than other forensic databases

The history of forensic science can be traced back thousands of years. Fingerprint recognition is one of its first applications. Ancient Chinese used fingerprints to identify business documents. In 1892, a eugenic scholar named Sir Francis Garton (often not claiming a prejudiced scientific classification system) established the first system to classify fingerprints. Sir Edward Henry of the London Metropolitan Police Department developed its own system in 1896 based on the direction, flow, pattern and other features of the fingerprint. Henry classification system will be the standard of fingerprinting technology of criminals all over the world

Of course, the use of fingerprints in criminal novels is synchronized with their use in real life. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a short story that wrote a fingerprint about his famous detective Sherlock Holmes. "Norwood Architect" is a short story of 1903, including the discovery of bloody fingerprints to help Sherlock Holmes. Reveal the real criminal and release his client. British detective writer R. Austin Freeman's first Thornyke novel "Red Thumb Mark" was published in 1907. It features bloody fingerprints on a piece of paper and diamonds in a safe. It became the center of medical legal investigation led by Dr. Thorndyke who defended defendant who collated fingerprint after fingerprint and diamond theft.