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The 16 pages that link to Fingerprint, each with the reason it gives.

• Francis GaltonBroader topic: Galton studied fingerprint patterns and argued for their use in identifying individuals.

• Criminal investigationBroader topic: Latent prints recovered from objects can associate people with places or items.

• Crime scene investigationRelated: Prints may be visible or latent, so detection and preservation methods vary.

• IndexicalityRelated: A print is a physical trace linked to the finger that produced it.

• Crime sceneRelated: Impressions on scene surfaces may associate a person with an object or place.

• Trace evidenceCompared with: Fingerprints are impressions rather than transferred particles, though both can associate items with contact.

• DNA fingerprintingCompared with: Unlike ridge patterns, DNA profiles can be obtained from biological traces not left as prints.

• Criminal recordRelated: Fingerprint matching helps connect records to the correct person.

• CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationRelated: Fingerprint comparisons supply a recognizable form of individualizing evidence in investigations.

• CriminalisticsBroader topic: Ridge patterns are compared to assess whether an impression may share a source with a known print.

• Alphonse BertillonCompared with: Fingerprint identification eventually displaced Bertillon’s measurements as the leading method for police identification.

• Juan VucetichNarrower topic: Vucetich made these ridge patterns usable for systematic criminal identification.

• Edmond LocardRelated: Fingerprints are contact traces that became a central tool in Locard’s laboratory practice.

• Index fingerRelated: The index finger is frequently used for fingerprinting and biometric scans.

• DermatoglyphicsBroader topic: Fingerprints are the best-known dermatoglyphic patterns and a major identification source.

• Henry FauldsNarrower topic: Faulds argued that these distinctive ridge patterns could identify individuals.