An Overview of the Development in Forensic Fingerprint Detection
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Fingerprint detection remains an indispensable tool in forensic investigations, enabling the identification of individuals from their fingerprints left at crime scenes. The distinctive ridge patterns on fingertips serve as unique identifiers for individuals. Traditionally, fingerprint detection has relied on chemical methods that utilize reagents to react with amino acids present in fingerprint residues. These chemicals dissolved in perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl are often applied to the examined surface to develop the fingerprint. However, these chemicals pose significant health hazards to investigators due to their inherent toxicity. As a result, there has been a growing impetus to develop fingerprint detection methods that eliminate the use of hazardous chemicals, exhibit high forensic sensitivity, and are environmentally friendly. This review article comprehensively explores the history of fingerprint use in forensic science, the chemical and physical composition of fingerprints, the use of cyanoacrylate fuming for fingerprint detection as well as classical techniques that using ninhydrin and iodine as reagents. The development of new environmentally friendly and safe fingerprint detection techniques using water as a solvent, and future research directions to improve and develop more effective fingerprint detection methods will also be discussed.
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เนื้อหาและข้อมูลในบทความที่ลงตีพิมพ์ใน วารสารวิชาการอาชญาวิทยาและนิติวิทยาศาสตร์ โรงเรียนนายร้อยตำรวจ ถิอว่าเป็นข้อคิดเห็นและความรั้บผิดชอบของผู้เขียนบทความโดยตรงซึ่งกองบรรณาธิการวารสาร ไม่จำเป็นต้องเห็นด้วยหรือรับผิดชอบใดๆ
บทความ ข้อมูล เนื้อหา รูปภาพ ฯลฯ ที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์ใน วารสารวิชาการอาชญาวิทยาและนิติวิทยาศาสตร์ ถือว่าเป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของวารสาร วารสารวิชาการอาชญาวิทยาและนิติวิทยาศาสตร์ หากบุคคลหรือหน่วยงานใดต้องการนำทั้งหมดหรือส่วนหนึ่งส่วนใดไปเผยแพร่ต่อหรือเพื่อกระทำการใดๆ จะต้องได้รับอนุญาตเป็นลายลักษณ์อักษรจาก วารสารวิชาการอาชญาวิทยาและนิติวิทยาศาสตร์ ก่อนเท่านั้น
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