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Footwear Impressions

     

What is footwear evidence?

Physical contact between footwear and a viable surface may leave a transfer of class and individual characteristics, which can aid in identificatio.  There are three types of footwear impressions that can be left as evidence:

• LATENT-Created by static charges; unable to see with naked eye, requires some type of physical or chemical development
• VISIBLE-A transfer of residue or trace material from the shoe to the surface
• PLASTIC OR PATENT-A deformation of the surface by the shoe