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Forensic science comes to the Christmas Lectures, with Professor Dame Sue Black

Instant Genius

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Detecting Fingerprints and Skin Crasing in the Hands

Palmistry likes to read our future in those i'd actually like to read your identity in them rather than your future so i would love to see us in a position where when we have individuals who have been charged with a crime that not only do we take their fingerprints but we take a full palm review and a full dorsal view of their hands. If they are then convicted of that crime then what we're able to do is to trawl through the database of all of these offending images  and see if that individual is responsible for more than the one crime in which we've already arrested them. We could link historical crimes if we were able to do that is that work you can give

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