2025 0929 Next Level Friction Ridge Examinations – Nashville, TN

Instructors: Glenn Langenburg and Alice White

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This is a 4.5-day course (36 hours) in advanced friction ridge examination topics. Specifically, this course will cover four challenges associated with the examination process: 1) How do the characteristics of friction ridges and the associated distortions change when the impression not recorded in typical “residue”, but instead a blood matrix?; 2) What new complexities do blood impressions impart in the Analysis, Comparison, and Evaluation (ACE) phases; 3) What activity level issues are impacted by impressions in a blood matrix? And 4) How does the interpretation of ridge detail consisting of blood or complex residue scenarios affect our exclusion decisions?

When the answers to these questions are readily apparent, examiners efficiently and confidently complete cases. When the answers to these questions are opaque, examiners may slip into “analysis paralysis” (unable to make a decision) or they may exit the examination process too soon and offer an ill-supported opinion. We will explore these challenging questions through the examination of impressions that bear increasingly difficult interactions between surfaces and materials delivered by the skin. The course will consist of a series of lectures and practical exercises to emphasize the learning objectives.  A test will be provided at the completion of the course to ensure students have understood the material.