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Wikipedia: Juan Vucetich

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The encyclopedia article on Juan Vucetich, the Argentine police official who created the first practical fingerprint classification system and secured the first criminal conviction by fingerprint evidence.

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Wikipedia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Vucetich
Source Type
Encyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier
3
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Wikipedia: Juan Vucetich
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Vucetich
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Wikipedia: Juan Vucetich
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Wikipedia: Juan Vucetich
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The first positive identification of a criminal was made in 1892.
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Claims Backed By This Source (13 claims)

This source backs 13 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Criminologists and Reformers, 8 claims: 4 well-attested, 4 general references.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.

Well-attested

9

Criminologists and Reformers

General References

4

Criminologists and Reformers

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