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Capturing the criminal image from mug shot to surveillance society

Title: Capturing the criminal image [electronic resource] : from mug shot to surveillance society / Jonathan Finn.
Author: Finn, Jonathan M. (Jonathan Mathew), 1972-
Publication: Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

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1 online resource (xxii, 163 p.) : ill.

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Capturing the criminal image (Online)

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Capturing the criminal image (Online)
From mug shot to surveillance society

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

Introduction : constructing the criminal in North America -- Picturing the criminal : photography and criminality in the nineteenth century -- Photographing fingerprints : data, evidence, and latent identification -- The control of inscriptions : standardizing DNA analysis -- Potential criminality : the body in the digital archive -- Visible criminality : data collection, border security, and public display.

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