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Policing Criminal Justice Data, Wayne A. Logan, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
Policing Criminal Justice Data, Wayne A. Logan, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
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Policing Identity, Wayne A. Logan
Policing Identity, Wayne A. Logan
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Identity has long played a critical role in policing. Learning “who” an individual is not only affords police knowledge of possible criminal history, but also of “what” an individual might have done. To date, however, these matters have eluded sustained scholarly attention, a deficit that has assumed ever greater significance as government databases have become more comprehensive and powerful. Identity evidence, in short, has and continues to suffer from an identity crisis, which this Article seeks to remedy. The Article does so by first surveying the methods historically used by police to identify individuals, from nineteenth-century efforts to measure bodies …