O método datiloscópico de Vucetich e sua importância na prática forense

Abstract

Tyloloscopy is the science that deals with the examination of fingerprints, is the name used today in almost all countries to designate the system of human identification by means of fingerprints, proposed by Doctor Francisco Latzina, in 1894, and accepted by Vucetich, for replace the name Iconofalangometry with which had been baptized this system. The tyloloscopy is active in the forensic environment in several situations, assisting in the elucidation of crimes, identification of persons for civil purposes, identification of dead persons, identification of victims in situations of collective disasters. Their application in forensic practice the point to be analyzed in this work, proving to be adequate for being an effective and inexpensive method of identification. It is adopted as a methodology the critical-dialectical bibliographyIt is adopted as a methodology the critical-dialectical bibliography.