Dactiloscopy: A method for registration and identification of individuals

Abstract

Dactyloscopy is one of the oldest scientifically based technical methods of registration and identification of persons according to the pattern of papilary ridges on the fingers of the hands. In order to emphasize the continuity in the application of dactyloscopy in judicial and police practice, sometimes in this work we presented certain cases of its successful application even from the past times. Successful application of dactyloscopy in identification and registration of individuals was not followed by an accurate use of the term dactyloscopy.In this work dactyloscopy is being treated as the part of lophoscopy. The term dactyloscopy is precisely determined and it is differentiated between heiroscopy and pedoscopy. It also precisely determined the use of the terms the trace of papillary ridges and the print of papillary ridges.

Daktiloskopija je jedna od najstarijih naučno-tehničkih metoda za registraciju i identifikaciju lica na osnovu crteža papilarnih linija na prstima ruku. Da bi se naglasio kontinuitet primene daktiloskopije u sudskoj i policijskoj praksi, na nekim mestima u radu izneti su slučajevi njene uspešne primene i u prošlosti. Uspešnu primenu daktiloskopije u identifikaciji i registraciji lica ne prati i precizna primena pojma daktiloskopija. U ovom radu daktiloskopija se razmatra u sklopu papilaroskopije. Precizno se određuje pojam daktiloskopija i razgraničava se od heiroskopije i pedoskopije. Takođe se precizira upotreba pojma trag papilarnih linija i otisak papilarnih linija.