Why is it pointless to try to obscure or obliterate one's fingerprints by scarring or otherwise damaging the skin?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer should include points such as the following:
To be effective, the wound would have to penetrate 1 to 2 millimeters beneath the skin's surface.
The permanent scars caused by the effort to obliterate one's fingerprints merely provide new characteristics for identification.

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An officer who is represented by the media as “fighters against evil” is a ______.

a. crime fighter b. emergency operator c. social enforcer d. social peacekeeper

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. A nonequivalent control group design is a quasi-experimental design is one in which there are experimental and comparison groups that are designed before the treatment occurs but are not created by random assignment. 2. Policy research is a process rather than a method. 3. Qualitative methods do not mix well with quantitative methods. 4. In general, quasi-experimental designs are much less powerful alternatives to true randomized experimental designs. 5. Problem-oriented policing strategies are increasingly used by urban jurisdictions to reduce crime in high-activity crime places.

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What is the main advantage of the microspectrophotometer?

What will be an ideal response?

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In which of the following conditions may a peace officer or juvenile probation officer take emergency possession of a child?

a. The parents of the child are currently using a controlled substance. b. Corroborated information from another or personal knowledge of facts that lead the officer to believe the child is a victim of sexual abuse. c. Corroborated information from another or personal knowledge of facts that lead the officer to believe that there is an immediate danger to the child's physical health or safety of the child. d. The premise in which the child resides is used for the manufacture of methamphetamine. e. All of the above

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