Crime Scene Print Patterns

There are three types of prints found at crime scenes.

1. Latent Prints: invisible prints left behind by oils on the fingers.

2. Plastic Prints: impressions left on soft material (wax, soap, dust, etc)

3. Visible Prints: made by fingers touching a surface after contact with a material such as blood, paint, dirt or ink.

4. What are the three kinds of crime scene fingerprints?

• Visible Prints, Plastic Prints, Latent Prints

• Visible Prints, Invisible Prints, Latent Prints

• Visible Prints, Plastic Prints, Invisible Prints

• Visible Prints, Impression Prints, Latent Prints

What is AFIS?

• A device used to detect latent fingerprints

• A chemical reaction used to collect fingerprints

• An automated fingerprint identification system

• A program for analyzing minutiae patterns

Prints that are not readily visible are called _____ prints.

• latent

• visbile

• plastic

Where can latent fingerprints be left?

• Glass

• Metal

• Tools

• All of the answers

What type of minutiae pattern is this called?

• Bifurcation

• Spur

• Bridge

What type of minutiae pattern is this called?

• Bifurcation

• Hook / Spur

• Island