Fingerprinting Merit Badge Resources

• Merit badge Worksheet for Fingerprinting from usscouts.org. It is a great place to organize your work.
• Check out Mr. R's Fingerprinting Merit Badge Passport.
• FBI Fingerprint Identification & History
• Fingerprint History
• Criminal versus Civil Fingerprint Identification
• AFIS versus Biometrics (Fingerprint versus Finger-Scan)
• What is a Fingerprint?
• Is Fingerprint Identification a "Science"?
• Latent Print Examination: Fingerprints, Palm Prints, and Footprints
• FBI How to take Fingerprints
• Taking Legible Fingerprints
• Education in Forensic Science 
• FBI Youth 
• International Association for Identification 
• Latent Print Examination: Fingerprints, Palm Prints, and Footprints 
• Reddy's Forensic Page: Fingerprints 
• So You Want to Be a Forensic Scientist! 
• FBI Fingerprinting Video Lesson
• Biometric Watch - includes a brief history, and identification of the three major types.
• National Center For Missing And Exploited Children
• Southern California Association of Fingerprint Officers
• The Thin Blue Line: Fingerprinting