In Western civilization, fingerprinting has been used in crime detection for many hundreds of years.

True

False

The answer is false

The method of taking imprints of someone's fingers to identify people in forensic science was only introduced by Sir William James Herschel in the late 1800s, then suggested and proposed by Henry Faulds in 1880; then the first known record of criminal fingerprint identification was made in 1892 at Buenos Aires by inspector Eduardo Alvarez in a murder case. Thereby that previous statement would be False.