Individual and collective identification in contemporary forensics

It has long been understood that individual and collective identification are inexorably intertwined. This convergence is not limited to genetics. This paper discusses the convergence of individual and collective identification in a comparative analysis of three other forensic areas: fingerprint ana...

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1. VerfasserIn: Cole, Simon (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2018
In:Jahr: 2018
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