It may be argued that there must be strong reason for "framing" the victim, whose fingerprint must already be on file with the Police. Otherwise the actual criminal would simply wear gloves in committing his offence, to protect himself. The production and placing of the fake fingerprint, again, would involve a lot of time and painstaking labour and expertness, and would add to the danger of being caught at the scene of the crime. And, finally, the "fingerprint" found in the eBurse of the Police investigation would not be at all likely to take in the criminologist, who if in the slightest doubt would apply the further test of poroscopy and thus settle the case in a jiffy.
There is the important point that finger marks bear the characteristics of the material upon which they are made. Thus, for instance, a fingerprint obtained from wood would show the grain of the wood and when transferred to glass or metal would not look genuine
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