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The ‘Opinionization’ of Fingerprint Evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2008

Simon A. Cole
Simon A. Cole
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Department of Criminology, Law and Society, 2357 Social Ecology II, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-7080, USA E-mail: scole@uci.edu
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BioSocieties , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 105 - 113
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