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CONTENTS

FOREWORD xiii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Welcome 1
1.2 Fingerprints 3
1.3 What Is AFIS? 4
1.4 Identiﬁcation Practices Prior to AFIS Systems 8
1.5 Current Identiﬁcation Practices 10
1.6 Why Fingerprint-Based Checks Are Important 12
1.7 From Paper to Paperless 13
1.7.1 Paper: The Fingerprint Card 13
1.7.2 Paperless: Livescan 13
1.8 The Impact of AFIS Systems 15
1.9 Other AFIS Issues 16
1.10 Why This Book Was Written 18
1.11 Who This Book Is Intended For 20
1.12 Chapter Overview 23
1.12.1 Chapter 2 History of Automated Fingerprint Identiﬁcation System 24
1.12.2 Chapter 3 Fingerprints Are Unique 24
1.12.3 Chapter 4 AFIS Summary—How the System Works 24
1.12.4 Chapter 5 From Print to Identiﬁcation 25
1.12.5 Chapter 6 Current Issues 25
1.12.6 Chapter 7 Buying an AFIS System: The Basic Documents Needed 26
1.12.7 Chapter 8 Standards and Interoperability 26
1.12.8 Chapter 9 Contractual Issues Regarding the Purchase of an
Automated Fingerprint Identiﬁcation System 26
1.12.9 Chapter 10 Case Study—Diamonds in the Rough: Increasing the
Number of Latent Print Identiﬁcations 27
1.12.10 Appendices 27

CHAPTER 2 HISTORY OF AUTOMATED FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM 29
2.1 Early Prints 29
2.2 Moving Beyond a Single Database 32
2.3 Fingerprint (Tenprint) Cards 33

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