1. INTRODUCTION
2. HISTORY OF AUTOMATED FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM
3. FINGERPRINTS ARE UNIQUE
4. AFIS SUMMARY—HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS
5. FROM PRINT TO IDENTIFICATION
6. CURRENT ISSUES
7. BUYING AN AFIS SYSTEM: THE BASIC DOCUMENTS NEEDED
8. STANDARDS AND INTEROPERABILITY
9. CONTRACTUAL ISSUES REGARDING THE PURCHASE OF AN AUTOMATED
FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM
10. CASE STUDY—DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH: INCREASING THE NUMBER OF
LATENT PRINT IDENTIFICATIONS
APPENDIX A:GLOSSARY
APPENDIX B:INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR IDENTIFICATION—1998 IAI AFIS COMMITTEE
REPORT ON CROSS-JURISDICTIONAL USE OF AFIS SYSTEMS
APPENDIX C :NCHIP FUNDING, 1995–2003
