NCJ Number
122720
Journal
Journal of Forensic Identification Volume: 39 Issue: 6 Dated: (November/December 1989) Pages: 367-374
Date Published
1989
Length
8 pages
Annotation
Footwear and tire track examination in the USSR is a well established discipline which has a solid historical background and has developed a theoretical and practical foundation, along with an educational basis.
Abstract
Traceology is a discipline that develops scientific and technological means for revealing, preserving, and examining traces in order to clarify circumstances that may help investigate and prevent crimes. Traces are classified as trace-reflections, trace-objects, and trace-substances. Footwear impressions and tire tracks belong to the trace-reflection group, which is found on trace-objects: vinyl tiles, floor surfaces, and snow-covered roads. The major principles of the criminalistics theory as they are applied to footwear and tire track examination are: (1) the outer structures of all footwear and tires are individual; (2) the object's outer structure can be reflected in another object in the form of trace-reflection; and (3) the trace-reflection is inverse or mirror image of an object. It is hoped that with the new policy of glasnost, more can be learned about Soviet traceology. 24 references.