Academic Paper from the year 2017 in the subject Law - Criminal process, Criminology, Law Enforcement, grade: 3.6, University of Birmingham, language: English, abstract: The world of forensic science has progressed vastly during the past decades, and it could not have thrived without the life-changing invention of fingerprinting. In fact, fingerprinting has long been considered as the most simple and unique way of recognizing an individual. The key purpose of fingerprinting in the field of forensics across the globe is to provide forensic identification and evidence. However, at the moment, the scientific reliability and validity of the method, used for identification in forensic fingerprinting, has been challenged.